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Retail As he did in his bestselling biographies of Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Clint Eastwood, Marc Eliot offers an exciting, groundbreaking new take on an American iconthe most legendary Western film hero of all time, John Wayne An audience favorite and top box-office draw for decades, John Wayne symbolized masculinity, power, and patriotism, and inspired millions of Americans. Yet despite his popularity and success, he was unfairly dismissed as a "B" movie actor lacking elegance, creativity, range, and depth. American Titan challenges conventional wisdom and reevaluates Wayne's life and vital cinematic legacy, ultimately placing the man known as "Duke" among a select and brilliant pantheon of "actor auteurs"artists whose consistency of style in their work reflects their personal creative vision. In American Titan , Eliot demonstrates that Wayne possessed a distinct and remarkable vision rooted in his unique Midwestern and West Coast childhood that would become manifest in one of the most enduring screen personalities of all time: the elusive, stoic frontier loner. Wayne's heroic outsider also influenced a new generation of actors and filmmakers who would borrow from it to u

Who reads American titan : searching for John Wayne?

Author

Eliot, Marc

Publisher

Dey St./Harper Collins Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062269027

Category

history

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.87 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14