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From the veteran New York Times best-selling biographer comes a major, in-depth check out one of the very most enduring American icons ever, "the Duke", John Wayne. As he did in his best-selling biographies of Jimmy Stewart and Clint Eastwood, acclaimed Hollywood biographer Marc Eliot digs deep under the myth in this revealing look at the most legendary American film hero ever; the person with the distinctive voice, walk, and demeanor who was an inspiration to numerous and symbolic of American masculinity, electric power, and patriotism. Eliot pays off tribute to the person and the myth, identifying and inspecting the countless interesting contradictions that made John Wayne who he was: an Academy Award-winning acting professional associated with cowboys and soldiers who didn't like horses rather than served in a warfare; a Republican icon who voted for Democrats Roosevelt and Truman; a white man often accused of racism who committed three Mexican wives. Here are stories of the movies he made famous as well as numerous friends and famous fellow workers such as John Ford, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, and Dean Martin. A top box-office get for more than three years - starring in 142 videos from Stagecoach and True Grit, for which he earned the Oscar to The Calm Man and The Green Berets - John Wayne's life and career paralleled nearly the whole 20th hundred years, from the Despair through World Battle II to the upheavals of the 1960s. Arranging his life within the sweeping political and interpersonal transformations that defined the nation, Eliot's masterful family portrait of the person they called Duke is a exceptional in depth check out a life and the "American Century" itself.
