Those are some really tough questions, and I did my best to address them in the book. Bond always seems to have been conservative, whereas Wayne, while in college, espoused liberal views, and then drifted to the right. In the 1930s, influenced by his cousin Liam O'Flaherty, author of THE INFORMER, F...

I believe Ford's comments and behavior toward his actors/friends stemmed from insecurity, but since he was such a monumental mythmaker (and compulsive liar), it's very difficult to determine exactly what his motivations were for certain remarks and actions. The fact is that, the more abusive (verbal...

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Thanks very much. I'm enjoying myself here immensely!

Ford could be very elusive and irascible AND very sentimental (a feature of his personality he didn't like others to see in person), plus a myriad of other things! Of all the people I've written books about, Ford is definitely the most complex and contradictory of them all--and that's saying a lot. ...

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Wayne and Bond both were strongly conservative, while Ford could be quite contradictory in his political views. During the 1930s, Ford was quite liberal (as were many artists during the Depression), but he began drifting more to the right after his experiences in the military during World War II. Re...

Hello and good morning. It's quite a pleasure to be here among so many classic film aficionados. John Ford has been my favorite film director for more than three decades, and after studying and writing about him in college, I always had the idea that someday I would write a book about him. Consideri...