John wayne biography by scott eyman
Drawing on interviews that author Scott Eyman conducted with John Wayne before his death and more than interviews with the actor's family, co-stars.
Exploring Wayne's early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father, Eyman makes startling connections to his later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages and his notorious-and surprisingly long-lived-extra-marital affair with Marlene Dietrich....
John Wayne: The Life and Legend
“[An] authoritative and enormously engaging new biography. . .
In his authoritative and enormously engaging new biography, “John Wayne: The Life and Legend,” Scott Eyman writes in great detail on all three subjects.. [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.
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This revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about Wayne illuminate his singular life.
. Traces his transition from the eager, boyish roles he played in early movies to confident leading man.”
– Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“No Wayne biography until now has ridden the defile between the reverential and the tendentious with quite the graceful equilibrium of this one.
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The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: authoritative and enormously engaging Eyman takes you through Wayne's life, his death, and his legend.
. Eyman gets at the details that the bean-counters and myth-spinners miss. . . . Wayne's intimates have told Eyman things here that they've never told anyone else.”
– David Kipen, The Los Angeles Times
“Deeply researched and totally absorbing.”
– Clive Sinclair, The Wall Street Journal
“We all think we know John Wayne, in part be
