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The first major biography of the iconic actor Henry Fonda - a story of stardom, manhood, and the American persona... Henry Fonda's shows - in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond - helped explain "American" in the 20th hundred years. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway story. He fought in World Battle II and was treasured around the world. Yet a lot of his life was rage and have difficulties. Why do Fonda marry five times - tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically to heiress Frances Brokaw, mom of Jane and Peter? Was he a man of integrity, worthy of the heroes he played out, or the tough dad his children identify, the iceman who proceeded to go onstage hours after his partner killed herself? Why do suicide shadow his life and art work? What memories troubled him so? McKinney's Fonda is dark, intricate, fascinating, and something of glamour and acclaim, early on deficits, and Midwestern demons - a man haunted with what he'd seen and who he was. Devin McKinney, author of Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and Background, has written for the Village Voice, Oxford American, Guardian, American Potential customer, and Film Quarterly. He lives in central Pennsylvania.
