John Wayne: The Legend And The Man: An Exclusive Look Inside the Duke's Archives

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Combining never-before-seen photographs culled from the family's vast personal archives with images from some of John Wayne's 175 feature films, John Wayne: The Legend and the Man will celebrate the qualities John Wayne embodied. Comments from family members, friends and co-stars will recount first-hand examples of John Wayne's loyalty, honesty, dependability and courage. Personifying the American spirit, John Wayne was, and continues to be, a true Hollywood icon.

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"This is THE best John Wayne photo book ever!"
-True West

"As with many screen legends from that era, there was an aura about John Wayne that both enhanced and transcended the roles he played...That indefinable quality radiates throughout this remarkable collection of photographs."
-Cowboys & Indians

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John Wayne Enterprise's mission is to preserve and protect the name, image and likeness of John Wayne by associating the John Wayne brand with quality and timeless products and experiences that embody his spirit and give back to the community.

PATRICIA BOSWORTH, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is an award-winning journalist and bestselling biographer and memoirist. Born in San Francisco and based in New York City, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence and a winner of the Front Page Award. Patricia has taught literary nonfiction at Columbia School of Journalism, where she was a Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program, and at Barnard College. A longtime board member of the Actors Studio, she ran the Playwrights-Directors Unit there. Her latest book, The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan, will be released in paperback by HarperCollins in January 2018. Her first memoir, Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story, was about her family and the Hollywood Blacklist. She is also the author of biographies of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and the photographer Diane Arbus. Her Arbus biography inspired the 2006 film Fur, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr.