"John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture.
John Wayne was his country\'s alter ego." Thus begins John Wayne: American, a biography bursting with vitality and revealing the changing.
In his person and in the persona he so carefully constructed, middle America saw itself, its past, and its future. . . .
Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1940s, matured with him in the 1950s, and kept the faith with him in the 1960s and 1970s. "John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture