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JOHN WAYNE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND
By: 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: βauthoritative and enormously engagingβ¦Eyman takes you through Wayneβs life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable wayβ (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review). John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of todayβs 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 Wayneβs early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father, βEyman gets at the details that the bean-counters and myth-spinners missβ¦Wayneβs intimates have told things here that theyβve never told anyone elseβ (Los Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayneβs later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages to Latina women, and his notoriousβand surprisingly long-livedβpassionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actorβs own business records and, of course, his storied film career. βWe 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, βJohn Wayneβ was an invention, a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actorβ (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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