John Wayne: The Life and Legend

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John Wayne: The Life and Legend is written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1439199590 (ISBN 10) and 9781439199596 (ISBN 13).

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 long-lived--passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich.