Print the Legend
The Life and Times of John Ford
$60.78
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2015
Summary
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This line from director John Ford’s film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance serves as an epigraph for the life of the legendary filmmaker.
Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films—among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley—John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476797724 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476797722 |
| Author: | Scott Eyman |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | Re-issue |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 692g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 51mm |
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Critics Review
“Eyman has emerged as one of the most distinguished and reliable of popular film historians. Print the Legend displays his broad knowledge, his tact, his willingness to credit other writers, his capacity to avoid sensationalism but not to flinch from difficult truths.” –Robert Sklar, Washington Post Book World * Review *“Everything about this model biography is a pleasure.” – Malcolm Jones * Newsweek *“A quietly magnificent biography of an American original.” * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *“A thorough, honest, empathetic biography that examines both the man and his towering achievements.” – Leonard Maltin
About The Author
Scott Eyman
Scott Eyman is the author or coauthor of eighteen books, including the bestseller John Wayne and Pieces of My Heart and You Must Remember This with actor Robert Wagner. Eyman, formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post, also writes book reviews for The Wall Street Journal, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He and his wife, Lynn, live in West Palm Beach.
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