Cloth; Near Fine; Brown cloth boards, title & design in dark brown. Illus. NEAR FINE dustjacket. Plain endpapers, photo illus., 365pp. An entertainig account of how Hollywood created the image of the indomitable male. Internally clean & tight. A very nice copy. [Hertford, NC. USA.]
Joan Mellen is the bestselling author of twenty books, including A Farewell to Justice, her biographical study of Jim Garrison s New Orleans investigation of the Kennedy assassination. She has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Baltimore Sun. Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.