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                | Print the LegendThe Life and Times of John Ford
 By Scott Eyman |  
 | BRIEF NOTES Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John FordSimon & Schuster : New York, New York : 2015By Scott Eyman
 Trade Paperback Edition : ISBN 978-1476797724 : 640 pages
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          | Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films — among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach and How Green Was My Valley — John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, he was reticent about his personal life. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to let his films speak for him. What mattered to Ford was always what was up there on the screen. Now, in this definitive look at the life and career of one of America’s true cinematic giants, noted biographer and critic Scott Eyman, working with the full participation of the Ford estate, has managed to document and delineate both aspects of John Ford’s life — the human and the legend. 
              
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