Three Bad Men

<p> These were unique complex personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published).</p><p> The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity creativity toil perseverance bravery debauchery futility abuse masochism mayhem violence warfare open- and closed-mindedness control and chaos brilliance and stupidity rationality and insanity friendship and a testing of its limits love and hate--all committed by a half-genius half-Irish cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.</p>