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Review of Scott Eyman’s "John Wayne: The Life and Legend"
One of the best-selling entertainment biographies of 2014 was Scott Eyman’s interesting portrait of the legendary John Wayne.
Nevertheless, Eyman’s book well exhibits the problem often inherent in the entertainer biography genre.
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Eyman, a veteran Hollywood writer, with biographical treatments of Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, John Ford, and Mary Pickford to his credit, bases his account of Wayne on research into film archives and extensive oral histories, memoirs, and personal interviews with the actor, Wayne’s family members, colleagues, friends, and acquaintances.
The result is a lively anecdotal history which, in the final analysis, fails to provide any substantial insight into the life and work of a figure that, as Eyman suggests, embodies American exceptionalism for the nation and world.
Readers seeking to place Wayne within a larger historical and cultural context would do better to consult the scholarship of histor