A rare behind-the-scenes look at John Wayne: the legend, hero, and Hollywood icon of numerous epic Western films, including an Academy Award-winning performance in True Grit.No legend ever walked taller than “The Duke.” Now, author Michael Munn’s startling new biography of John Wayne sets the record straight on why Wayne didn’t serve in World War II, on director John Ford’s contribution to Wayne’s career, and the mega-star’s highs and lows: three failed ma...

Sex appeal, magnetism and a huge on-screen persona; John Wayne had it all. And, despite the fact that his beginnings on the silver screen, when “talkies” began to oust the silent movie era, were somewhat humble, he went on to hold the record for the most leading-man roles – 142 – by an actor.He first appeared in film in 1926 in The Great K & A Train Robbery as an un-credited extra and prop boy in this stunt-driven movie and went on to work on a long list of B-rated movies ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or ...

In this immensely captivating and imaginative novel, perfectly set at the intersection of fact and fiction, Dan Barden superimposes the story of John Wayne on the story of the Bardens, a family very much like his own. Frank Barden, Wayne's contractor, is an Irish Catholic from New York who has come to California in pursuit of the American dream. His wife, Lillian, becomes disappointed in the reality of the dream, and questions her faith in men like Frank and John Wayne. In fictionalized ep...

After the death of Marion Morrison, known as John Wayne, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter said that Wayne "was bigger than life. In an age of few heroes, he was the genuine article. But he was more than a hero; he was a symbol of many of the qualities that made America great."The first section of this study concentrates on Wayne's style of work and sphere of action as an actor: The man who works for a living and is concerned with his audience and the constraints of his immediate env...

'Jesús y John Wayne' es una amplia historia revisionista de los últimos setenta y cinco años del evangelismo blanco que revela cómo los evangélicos han trabajado para sustituir al Jesús de los Evangelios por un ídolo de la masculinidad ruda y el nacionalismo cristiano, o en palabras de un capellán moderno, por "un malote espiritual". Como explica la aclamada académica Kristin Du Mez, la clave para entender esta transformación es reconocer la centralidad de la cultura popular en el evangeli...

**This discounted ebundle includes: I Am Not a Serial Killer, Mr. Monster, I Don't Want to Kill You, Devil's Only Friend, Over Your Dead Body, Nothing Left to Lose“Brilliant! Full of unforgettable characters, creepy thrills, and dangerous twists you won't see coming.” —Jonathan Maberry**John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.Having grown up helping his mom at the family mortuary, dead bodies are no big deal to John. He likes them. They do...

Serial Killer Autopsy: John Wayne Gacy, The Killer ClownA forensic examination of one of America's most notorious serial killers, dissecting the crimes, the psychology, and the systemic failures that allowed suburban evil to thrive.Between 1972 and 1978, John Wayne Gacy murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys, burying most of them in the crawl space beneath his suburban Chicago home. By day, he was a successful businessman, Democratic Party precin...

The Fighter is the compelling life story of Australian Muay Thai legend 'John' Wayne Parr - a fighter's odyssey full of twists, turns, world titles, personal challenges and triumphs.Hailed as a legend in the fighting world, ten-time Muay Thai and kickboxing world champion 'John' Wayne Parr knew ever since The Karate Kid came out that he wanted to learn a martial art.From then, Wayne trained in diverse styles including taekwondo and kickbox...

The culling took most of the men from Cochran Texas away to a dusty old town that exists between this plane and the next called Cocytus. Run by a maniacal power-hungry man named Lycus and his adopted proté gé daughter Alastor, he conducts chaos with the help of a group of bandits called Calamity Three. His goal: tip the cosmic scales to bring the Void crashing into the world and claim the place of power to which he believes he is owed. Loyalty is a flimsy commodity in Cocytus, and with Beh...

From all outward appearances, John Wayne Gacy Jr appeared to be born for anonymity. The second child and only son of John Stanley Gacy, an auto repair machinist and WWI veteran, and Marion Elaine Robinson, a housewife, Gacy Jr seemed to be destined to be another nameless face in the crowd, lost in the mass of humanity with which his Chicago home was overrun. Nobody who knew him would have ever imagined the kind of monster that lurked within his very common exterior.

When Marcie Wyld, doctor and woman of science, decides to slip through time to join her sister in Texas, 1888, she plans and prepares. She packs vaccinations, medications, and surgical supplies. She takes old-fashioned clothes and money.She does not plan on meeting John Wayne, Texas Ranger, cowboy god. The man of her dreams. She is not prepared to lose her heart.John Wayne admires Marcie’s intelligence and independent spirit. He hopes she will remain in his time. But life i...