Print the Legend

"Drawing on more than a hundred interviews and research on three continents, Scott Eyman explains how a saloonkeeper's son from Maine helped to shape America's vision of itself, and how a man with only a high school education came to create a monumental body of work, including films that earned him six Academy Awards - more than any filmmaker before or since. He also reveals the truth of Ford's turbulent relationship with actress Katherine Hepburn, recounts his stand for freedom of speech during the McCarthy witch-hunt - including a confrontation with archconservative Cecil B. DeMille - and discusses his disfiguring alcoholism as well as the heroism he displayed during World War II."--BOOK JACKET.