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Hardcover The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey Book

ISBN: 158979897X

ISBN13: 9781589798977

The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao: John Wayne's Political Odyssey

1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became. All of it, in all its color, glory, and ugliness, came symbolically together on a hot, humid weekend in Austin, Texas.

The protagonist? None other John "Duke" Wayne, the larger-than-life movie hero of countless Westerns and war dramas; a swashbuckling, ruggedly macho idol of America; the very embodiment...

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