Finally—the biography of one of America’s most heartrending cultural icons. Patrisha McLean (Maine Faces and Stories from a Small Town, Down East Books, 2009) traces Brandon deWilde’s dazzling life; as a principal player in the sophisticated and glamorous Broadway and Hollywood of the 1950s and then in the freewheeling world of California country rock in the 1960s. All Fall Down illuminates the inexorable curse of child stardom, the tragic fraying of family bonds, and the recuperative power of love.