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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman
Simon & Schuster
May 2015
On Sale: April 21, 2015
Featuring: John Wayne
672 pages
ISBN: 1439199590
EAN: 9781439199596
Kindle: B00DPM909C
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The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne:
“authoritative and enormously engaging…Eyman takes you
through Wayne’s life, his death, and his legend in a
detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable
way” (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review). John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains
one of today’s five favorite movie stars. The celebrated
Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait
by noted film historian and master biographer Scott Eyman. Exploring Wayne’s early life with a difficult mother and a
feckless father, “Eyman gets at the details that the
bean-counters and myth-spinners miss…Wayne’s intimates have
told things here that they’ve never told anyone else” (Los
Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne’s
later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy
marriages to Latina women, and his notorious—and
surprisingly long-lived—passionate affair with Marlene
Dietrich. He also draws on the actor’s own business records
and, of course, his storied film career. “We all think we know John Wayne, in part because he seemed
to be playing himself in movie after movie. Yet as Eyman
carefully lays out, ‘John Wayne’ was an invention, a persona
created layer by layer by an ambitious young actor” (The
Washington Post). This is the most nuanced and sympathetic
portrait available of the man who became a symbol of his
country at mid-century, a cultural icon and quintessential
American male against whom other screen heroes are still
compared.
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