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John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Scott Eyman
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Description for John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Paperback. This revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about John Wayne illuminate his singular life. Num Pages: 672 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 59. Weight in Grams: 698.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781439199596
SKU
V9781439199596
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About Scott Eyman
Scott Eyman was formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post and is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including the bestseller John Wayne and Pieces of My Heart and You Must Remember This with actor Robert Wagner. Eyman also writes book reviews for The Wall Street Journal, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He and his wife, Lynn, live in ... Read more
Reviews for John Wayne: The Life and Legend
“[An] authoritative and enormously engaging new biography. . . . [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
“A spirited portrait of John Wayne and the Hollywood he worked in. . . . Traces his transition from ... Read more
Peter Bogdanovich
The New York Times Book Review
“A spirited portrait of John Wayne and the Hollywood he worked in. . . . Traces his transition from ... Read more