John Wayne: The Life and Legend

716 Pages·2014·15.6 MB·English

by  Scott Eyman

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CONTENTS
Epigraph
Prologue
Part One: 1907–1939
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Part Two: 1939–1952
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Part Three: 1952–1961
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Part Four: 1961–1979
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About Scott Eyman
Notes
Bibliography
Index
For Jeff Heise
And for Harry Carey Jr.,
Who said,
“Just put on my tombstone, ‘He rode with the Duke.’ ”
Ride away . . .
“That guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never
was and never will be a film personality like John Wayne. I know him well. I’m
one of his closest students. I have to be. I make a living out of him.”
—DUKE MORRISON, AKA JOHN WAYNE, 1957
“Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the
time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely
girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as
they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to
remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a
carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach.”
THE MOVIEGOER, WALKER PERCY
John Wayne, with the customized, sawed-off Winchester he twirls in his introductory shot in Stagecoach.