CARL ROLLYSON
Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of…
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New Angles on Two Cinematic Legends, John Ford and Charlie Chaplin
Joseph McBride and Scott Eyman approach their subjects from the inside and outside, providing, in the process, a stereoptical view of two filmmakers who turned the world cinematic.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Beauties
Was Hitchcock a sadist? Laurence Leamer does not say, though his director is certainly a man who seemed to enjoy the suffering of certain actresses, treating them as extensions of his own sexual fantasies.
Patrick Henry and the Lesson of the Loyal Opposition
John Ragosta, in a brilliant recuperation of Henry’s reputation and a nod toward the politics of today, shows that like Washington, Henry feared that partisanship threatened the foundations of the republic.
Even Among the Founding Fathers, It Comes Down to Whom You Trust
Whatever their differences, they knew democracy was a fragile form of government, and each of them believed that the people and their parties were susceptible to their leaders’ subversion of democratic principles.
Who’s a Fool?
Andersson’s method of cross-examining his sources is helpful in assessing, say, biographies of Hollywood and other famous figures that are replete with precisely the kind of bogus testimony that he demolishes.
In Bed With the Biographer
The psychology of biography and the tensions between biographers and subjects are given full play in this lucid and insightful book.
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