shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us: 800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Contributors | November 10, 2009

Zachary Lazar: IMG Evening's Empire

0 comments By Zachary Lazar

Without knowing it, I'd always had two unspoken arrangements with the world. The first was that I would not trouble it with unpleasant conversation... Continue »
  1. $17.49 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder

    Zachary Lazar
This item may be
out of stock.
Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.
Check for Availability
Add to Wishlist
Used Book Alert Receive an email when this ISBN is available used.

Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford

Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Brilliant, stubborn, witty, rebellious, irascible, and contradictory, John Ford remains an enduring symbol of Hollywood's Golden Age and one of its most respected directors. Through a career that spanned decades and 140 films — among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — John Ford left a cinematic legacy that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet Ford himself was famously reticent about his personal life, often fabricating details and events. In this definitive look at the life and career of one of America's greatest directors, Scott Eyman offers a remarkable portrait of the man behind the legend that reveals how a saloon keeper's son from Maine helped to shape Hollywood's idea of America.

Review:

"A quietly magnificent biography of an American original who has shaped our perception of movies as serious art....Eyman's study serves up a big, gorgeous chunk of Hollywood history, chock-full of priceless anecdotes." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Review:

"Scott Eyman, Ford's latest and best biographer, has his work cut out sorting through the blarney Ford left strewn in his wake. But what a wake....Everything about this model biography is a pleasure." Malcolm Jones, Newsweek

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 624-628) and index.
back to top

About the Author

SCOTT EYMAN is the books editor for the Palm Beach Post. His other books include The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 and Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise, both available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.
back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780801865602
Subtitle:
The Life and Times of John Ford
Author:
Eyman, Scott
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
Baltimore
Subject:
General
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors
Subject:
Film - Direction & Production
Subject:
Motion picture producers and directors
Subject:
Film & Video - Direction & Production
Edition Description:
John Hopkins pbk. ed.
Series Volume:
1
Publication Date:
February 2001
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
688
Dimensions:
9.20x6.15x1.23 in. 1.87 lbs.
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. $14.50 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

    Nicholas De Lange
  2. $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

    Barbara Victor
  3. $9.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    John Ford (Movie Paperbacks)

    Peter Bogdanovich
  4. $8.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Mojo & a Filmmaker's Diary

    Jez Butterworth
back to top
  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.