Harrison ford film biography book

At the end of cinema's first hundred years, Harrison Ford stood alone and unchallenged as its most successful box office star. Ruggedly resolute, an all-American everyman, he delivers a brand of heroism unseen since the days of Gary Cooper, and unmatched by any of his modern-day rivals. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews, with family and friends, colleagues and contemporaries, and with Harrison Ford himself, Garry Jenkins has built up the first complete portrait of the screen's ultimate hero.
Biographies of Ford, a resolutely private man, are very thin on the ground so when I discovered this 1997 book I was intrigued enough to pick it up, ignoring the fact Jenkins was behind a book on “Star Wars” I gave 2* to. Pretty much a cut-and-paste job (the only interviews Jenkins carried out are with people from Ford’s early life, unless he asked questions during press junkets), this does do a decent job of tying stuff together and conveys a good sense of the real Ford, a man both strong and flawed, humorous but distant, demanding but giving. I enjoyed it for the most part though there are some glaring mistakes that you would have hoped at least one proof-reader might have picked up (yes, I know this came out before the Internet hi

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