Author: George-Warren, Holly,
Title: Public Cowboy no. 1: the life and times of Gene Autry.
Description: NY, Oxford Univ Press, 2007. 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio, recording, motion pictures, television, and live. performance, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Here is the first serious biography of this singular individual in a fascinating narrative that traces Autry's clmb from small-town farm boy to multimillion. Here for the first time he becomes a flesh-and-blood man, with all the passions, triumphs, and tragedies of a flawed icon. A beautiful book meticulously researched with an incredible number of photos. Autry pioneered a movie genre that helped shape American popular culture between the 1930s and 1950s.

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