John Wayne's America

by Wills, Garry

• ISBN13: 9780684808239
• ISBN10: 0684808234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

The best-selling author of Lincoln at Gettysburg explores the life and times of John Wayne and his legend, explaining how the man, Marion Morrison, became a myth and how that myth shaped Americans' political attitudes and ideas. 75,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE: The Most Dangerous Man	11	(18)
INTRODUCTION: Scope of the Book	29	(4)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	33	(2)
ONE: INVENTING A COWBOY	35	(30)
1 Man from Nowhere	37	(9)
2 Raoul Walsh	46	(9)
3 Years with Yak	55	(10)
TWO: JOHN FORD	65	(62)
4 Sadist	67	(10)
5 Artist	77	(9)
6 Rhythmed Motion	86	(10)
7 Inner Spaces	96	(6)
8 War Years	102	(12)
9 Harry Carey	114	(13)
THREE: INVENTING ANOTHER COWBOY	127	(32)
10 Howard Hawks	129	(9)
11 The New Wayne	138	(11)
12 Authority Figure	149	(10)
FOUR: EMPIRE	159	(32)
13 Custer and Cold War	161	(16)
14 Washington and Sheridan	177	(14)
FIVE: PROPAGANDA	191	(44)
15 Fort Hollywood	193	(11)
16 Alamo: Legend	204	(12)
17 Alamo: Ordeal	216	(12)
18 Green Berets	228	(7)
SIX: LATER FORD AND HAWKS	235	(46)
19 "Ireland"	237	(14)
20 The Fury of Ethan	251	(11)
21 Ford-Wayne, Inc.	262	(10)
22 Rio This and Rio That	272	(9)
SEVEN: A THIRD COWBOY	281	(21)
23 "I Thought You Were Dead"	283	(12)
24 "I Won't Be Wronged"	295	(7)
CONCLUSION: American Adam	302	(13)
NOTES	315	(38)
INDEX OF WAYNE FILMS CONSIDERED	353	(2)
INDEX	355