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John Wayne was one of Hollywood's most well-known & most successful celebrities, but he was more than that. He became a symbol of America itself. He epitomized the Traditional western film, which for many people epitomized America. He recognized with conservative politics causes from the first 1930s to his fatality in 1979, making him a hero to one generation of Americans and a villain to another. But unlike fellow acting professional Ronald Reagan, Wayne experienced no affinity for politics as a job. Like many superstars, he modified his life history, claiming to have become an acting professional almost unintentionally when in simple fact he had analyzed crisis and aspired to do something for almost all of his youth. He married three times, all to Latina women, and conducted an extended affair with Marlene Dietrich, as unlikely a romantic spouse as one could envision for the Duke. Wayne projected dignity, integrity, and durability in every his films, even when his heroes were flawed, and whatever figure he played out was always ready to confront injustice in his own way. A lot more than 30 years after his fatality, he remains the standard by which male superstars are judged and an acting professional whose morally unambiguous videos continue to catch the attention of sizeable people. Scott Eyman interviewed Wayne, as well as many family, and he has attracted on previously unpublished reminiscences from friends and associates of the Duke in this biography, as well as documents from his development company that reveal Wayne's business affairs. He traces Wayne from his youth to his stardom in Stagecoach and a large number of films after that. Eyman perceptively analyzes Wayne's romantic relationship with John Ford, the director with whom he's most associated and who made some of Wayne's greatest videos. Wayne was self-aware. He once said, "I've played out the kind of man I'd like to have been." It's that man and the real John Wayne who are brilliantly profiled in Scott Eyman's insightful biography of a true American legend.
