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Book Synopsis John Wayne: A Life from Beginning to End by : Hourly History
Download or read book John Wayne: A Life from Beginning to End written by Hourly History and published by Biographies of Actors. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wayne John Wayne graced the screen as a cowboy, an all-around rugged hero of the plains. With his "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" determination and raw sense of individualism, in many ways he came to symbolize everything that Americans held dear. His characters, tough as nails, were always idealistic adventurers seeking to right the wrongs of the world. But who was John Wayne? Born Marion Morrison, most don't even know his real name. In this book, we will cut through all the hype and get to the real man behind the legend of John Wayne. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Boy Named Marion Morrison ✓ Becoming John Wayne ✓ Stuck in the B-List ✓ Riding the Stagecoach to Success ✓ War and Love Affairs ✓ Late Life and Lung Cancer And much more!
Book Synopsis John Wayne: The Life and Legend by : Scott Eyman
Download or read book John Wayne: The Life and Legend written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about John Wayne illuminate his singular life.
Download or read book John Wayne written by Randy Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1940s, matured with him in the 1950s, and kept the faith with him in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . In his person and in the persona he so carefully constructed, middle America saw itself, its past, and its future. John Wayne was his country’s alter ego." Thus begins John Wayne: American, a biography bursting with vitality and revealing the changing scene in Hollywood and America from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. During a long movie career, John Wayne defined the role of the cowboy and soldier, the gruff man of decency, the hero who prevailed when the chips were down. But who was he, really? Here is the first substantive, serious view of a contradictory private and public figure.
Download or read book Duke written by Ronald L. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America’s favorite movie star. More than an actor, Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on Wayne’s human side, portraying a complex personality defined by frailty and insecurity as well as by courage and strength. Davis traces Wayne’s story from its beginnings in Winterset, Iowa, to his death in 1979. This is not a story of instant fame: only after a decade in budget westerns did Wayne receive serious consideration, for his performance in John Ford’s 1939 film Stagecoach. From that point on, his skills and popularity grew as he appeared in such classics as Fort Apache, Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man, The Searches, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, and True Grit. A man’s ideal more than a woman’s, Wayne earned his popularity without becoming either a great actor or a sex symbol. In all his films, whatever the character, John Wayne portrayed John Wayne, a persona he created for himself: the tough, gritty loner whose mission was to uphold the frontier’s--and the nation’s--traditional values. To depict the different facets of Wayne’s life and career, Davis draws on a range of primary and secondary sources, most notably exclusive interviews with the people who knew Wayne well, including the actor’s costar Maureen O’Hara and his widow, Pilar Wayne. The result is a well-balanced, highly engaging portrait of a man whose private identity was eventually overshadowed by his screen persona--until he came to represent America itself.
Download or read book John Wayne written by Michael Munn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare behind-the-scenes look at John Wayne: the legend, hero, and Hollywood icon of numerous epic Western films, including an Academy Award-winning performance in True Grit. No legend ever walked taller than “The Duke.” Now, author Michael Munn’s startling new biography of John Wayne sets the record straight on why Wayne didn’t serve in World War II, on director John Ford’s contribution to Wayne’s career, and the mega-star’s highs and lows: three failed marriages, and two desperate battles with cancer. Munn also discloses publicly, for the first time, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s plot to assassinate Wayne because of his outspoken, potentially influential anti-Communist views. Drawing on time spent with Wayne on the set of Brannigan—and almost 100 interviews with those who knew him—Munn’s rare, behind-the-scenes look proves this “absolute all-time movie star” was as much a hero in real life as he ever was on-screen.
Book Synopsis John Wayne: A Life from Beginning to End by : Hourly History
Download or read book John Wayne: A Life from Beginning to End written by Hourly History and published by Biographies of Actors. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wayne John Wayne graced the screen as a cowboy, an all-around rugged hero of the plains. With his "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" determination and raw sense of individualism, in many ways he came to symbolize everything that Americans held dear. His characters, tough as nails, were always idealistic adventurers seeking to right the wrongs of the world. But who was John Wayne? Born Marion Morrison, most don't even know his real name. In this book, we will cut through all the hype and get to the real man behind the legend of John Wayne. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Boy Named Marion Morrison ✓ Becoming John Wayne ✓ Stuck in the B-List ✓ Riding the Stagecoach to Success ✓ War and Love Affairs ✓ Late Life and Lung Cancer And much more!
Author :Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine Publisher :Media Lab Books ISBN 13 :9780998789828 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (898 download)
Book Synopsis John Wayne: Made in America by : Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine
Download or read book John Wayne: Made in America written by Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine and published by Media Lab Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?” —John Wayne A true American to the end, there was nothing John Wayne loved more than his country. In John Wayne: Made in America, John Wayne’s patriotism is explored through photos, his personal letters and mementos, and more memorabilia from the Wayne family archives. Carefully curated by the editors of the Official John Wayne magazine, this book gives new insight to the man who embodied the American spirit and was a living legend for more than 40 years.
Book Synopsis Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by : Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Download or read book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation written by Kristin Kobes Du Mez and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.
Book Synopsis John Wayne: The Legend and the Man by : John Wayne Enterprises
Download or read book John Wayne: The Legend and the Man written by John Wayne Enterprises and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family photo abums, the classic film costumes, the telgrams and medals, from the internationally-beloved icon, The Duke! All collected here for the first time. An undisputed American icon, John Wayne is recognized the world over for his signature drawl and confident swagger; the ultimate personification of American courage and honor. This fall, John Wayne Enterprises has chosen powerHouse Books to produce the first-ever exclusively authorized photographic record of his life, both on-screen and off. John Wayne: The Legend and the Man celebrates Duke's life and legacy through film stills and backstage photos and snapshots ranging from his cinematic masterpieces-True Grit, Rio Grande, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Quiet Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Fort Apache, and The Alamo-to a surprising variety of early-career, leading-man films: The Big Trail, Stagecoach, Flying Tigers, They Were Expendable. Also included are a wide selection of fan mail art; family albums, photos from friends and loved ones, and the many treasures gathered over the years in his immense archive (famed film costumes, publicity photos exchanged with costars, telegrams and medals), many of the photos and these personal effects being published for the first time, and all from Duke's personal archive. Duke was more than just his on-screen persona-he was known by loved ones for his warmth, charm, charisma, passion, loyalty, and spirit. Through an in-depth expose of the memorabilia, the private moments, the inner thoughts, and familial memories, John Wayne: The Legend and the Man captures both the man and the myth and furthers the legacy of this giant of American cinema. "This wonderful collection of photographs gives us John Wayne the figurehead, John Wayne the actor, and John Wayne the human being. It's a rich experience to look through these pages and see where Wayne's three roles converged and diverged.... And in all the photos, you see another, earlier America with different ideas of glamor, beauty, fashion, and behavior, a world that now feels as distant as the renaissance. A movie-made hero...a superstar, one of the very first...an image of manhood...and a great American artist. This book affords us a generous look at John Wayne from every angle." -Martin Scorsese, from the Introduction "To the people of the world, John Wayne is the United States of America. He is what they believe it to be. He is what they hope it will be. And he is what they hope it will always be." -Maureen O'Hara "In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right-that's me. Simple themes. Save me from the nuances. All I do is sincerity, and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started." -John Wayne (Time, June 9, 1967)
Download or read book John Wayne written by Michael Goldman and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wayne: The Genuine Article provides readers a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most iconic movie stars of all time through a treasure trove of memorabilia, stories, and interviews. This definitive book includes anecdotes from the Wayne family as well as incredibly compelling text from Wayne's unfinished memoir. Important milestones in the Academy Award-winning actor, director, and producer's life are also well documented here through anecdotes and photos from the John Wayne Enterprises' collection. The story of John Wayne's rise, reach, and influence in American culture is alive and well in this brilliant opus. With a foreword by Jimmy Carter and a preface by his son Ethan Wayne, John Wayne: The Genuine Article presents the complete story of how an ordinary man became a top box office draw for six decades, and a larger-than-life Icon known simply as the Duke. Previously published in an expanded coffee-table edition, this reprint makes John Wayne’s moving biography available to a wider audience in both print and ebook editions.
Download or read book John Wayne written by Aissa Wayne and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of John Wayne and his third wife, Pilar, Aissa delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen. John Wayne: My Father reports Wayne's life faithfully and compassionately, resulting in an affecting portrait that offers a new perspective on one of America's most enduring heroes.
Author :Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine Publisher :Media Lab Books ISBN 13 :9781948174091 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (74 download)
Book Synopsis Everything I Need to Know I Learned from John Wayne by : Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine
Download or read book Everything I Need to Know I Learned from John Wayne written by Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine and published by Media Lab Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT WOULD JOHN WAYNE DO? - Includes a foreword from Ethan Wayne - Dozens of classic John Wayne quotes - More than 100 photos of Duke in action! During his life, John Wayne was seen as a beacon of patriotism, manliness and moral conviction, living by a personal code that has continued to resonate 40 years after his passing. In this new book, that personal code is transformed into practical guidance for readers who want to know how Duke would handle many of the real-life challenges they themselves are facing. Drawing upon more than 50 lessons pulled straight from John Wayne's films, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from John Wayne provides insights into how to handle dozens of challenges, from managing anger and succeeding at work, to raising children and responding to bullies. Hundreds of quotes, scene breakdowns and full-color photos provide a glimpse into how Duke put his own personal ethos into cinematic action and how his approach can help readers overcome anything thrown at them.
Author :Stacy Publisher :New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks ISBN 13 :9780671507794 Total Pages :292 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Duke written by Stacy and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young Duke written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time Stagecoach made John Wayne a silver-screen star in 1939, the thirty-one-year-old was already a veteran of more than sixty films, having twirled six-guns and foiled cattle rustlers in B Westerns for five studios. By the 1950s he was Hollywood’s most popular actor—an Academy Award nominee destined to become an American icon. This biography reveals the story of his early life, illustrated with rare archival images.
Download or read book John Wayne's Way written by Douglas Brode and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As John Wayne’s character said in The Alamo: “There’s right and there’s wrong. You got to do one or the other.” The ultimate measure of a man is how he chooses to act. From the pithy to the humorous to the profound, the film career of the man known as The Duke is full of life lessons for today. In John Wayne's Way, author Doug Brode explores the film legacy of the Duke and provides commentary on the lessons learned from the archetypes of the West and American manhood Wayne displayed on the silver screen. Complete with quotes and photographs from the movies, these pithy lessons will be appealing to John Wayne fans and Western film buffs.
Book Synopsis John Wayne: A Western Celebration by : Jane Pattie
Download or read book John Wayne: A Western Celebration written by Jane Pattie and published by Wilma Russells Western Classic. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wayne - A Western Celebration celebrates 2007 as Duke's Centennial year since his birth in 1907. It is a stunning, oversized coffee-table book showcasing the entire and rare, Western poster collection in full color, of every one of Duke's Westerns - 85 full page color posters with a 250 word synopsis about each movie. Additional pages include superb artwork and design highlighting various aspects of his career as America's most popular and beloved cowboy.
Author :Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine Publisher :Media Lab Books ISBN 13 :9781942556268 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (562 download)
Book Synopsis Duke in His Own Words by : Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine
Download or read book Duke in His Own Words written by Editors of the Official John Wayne Magazine and published by Media Lab Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wayne was more than just an on-screen personality beloved by millions the world over. His movie persona was justy that - a persona. The man behind the legend, whom friends and family called "Duke," "Everlovin'" and "Dad," was an even stronger example of old-school American masculinity than the characters he played on the screen. But until now, most only knew the man on the marquee. With Duke: In His Own Words, the Wayne Family has opened their private archives to enable the creation of this amazing compendium of John Wayne's personal letters, telegrams, cards and memos. In these unaltered exchanges with people from every station of life and all corners of the globe, Duke's true identity jumps off the page. Whether he's writing to fans or family, platoons or presidents, he's always candid, colorfui and quick with a joke. Inside you'll find: - An introduction by Ethan Wayne, John Wayne's son - Exclusive, personal letters Duke sent to family members, friends and fans - along with those to American troops and former Comanders in Chief - Firsthand stories and anecdotes from Duke's nearest and dearest - Never-before-seen photos straight from the Wayne Family archives Duke: In His Own Words offers an honest portrait of the good-natured family man, the opinionated patriot, the humble superstar - all sides of the real John Wayne, and all presented by the man himself.
