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"The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: \u201Cauthoritative and enormously engaging\u2026Eyman takes you through Wayne\u2019s life, his death, and his legend in a detailed, remarkably knowledgeable yet extremely readable way\u201D (Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review).John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of today\u2019s 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\u2019s early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father, \u201CEyman gets at the details that the bean-counters and myth-spinners miss\u2026Wayne\u2019s intimates have told things here that they\u2019ve never told anyone else\u201D (Los Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne\u2019s later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages to Latina women, and his notorious\u2014and surprisingly long-lived\u2014passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actor\u2019s own business records and, of course, his storied film career. \u201CWe 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, \u2018John Wayne\u2019 was an invention, a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actor\u201D (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."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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