John Wayne: The Life and Legend

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
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-01
Format	Kindle eBook