John Wayne: The Life and Legend

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John Wayne: The Life and Legend

The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: â€œauthoritative and enormously engagingâ€¦Eyman takes you through Wayneâ€™s life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable wayâ€ (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review).

John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of todayâ€™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 Wayneâ€™s early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father, â€œEyman gets at the details that the bean-counters and myth-spinners missâ€¦Wayneâ€™s intimates have told things here that theyâ€™ve never told anyone elseâ€ (Los Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayneâ€™s later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages to Latina women, and his notoriousâ€”and surprisingly long-livedâ€”passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actorâ€™s own business records and, of course, his storied film career.

â€œWe 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, â€˜John Wayneâ€™ was an invention, a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actorâ€ (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.

Country	USA
Author	Scott Eyman
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781439199602
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfPages	673
PublicationDate	2014-04-01
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2014-04-01
Studio	Simon & Schuster

John Wayne: The Life and Legend

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