John Wayne liked J.R.R. Tolkien. That’s a fact in Scott Eyman’s new biography John Wayne: The Life and Legend. Where other biographers have struggled to create a singular image of this complicated man, and his work, Eyman has succeeded. Presenting memories, and facts, culled from dozens of interviews with family and friends, sometimes contradicting each other, Eyman affords us an intimate look at Wayne. This isn’t a stained glass portrait of a saint, but the story of a man’s life, wit


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