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This book is a fly-on-the-wall exploration of this wild weekend and an immersion into the John Wayne mythology: his politics, his inspirations, the plots to assassinate him, his connections to Stalin, Khrushchev, and Chairman Mao, and the death of the Western.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51735612326161,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51735612457233,"sku":"CIN158979897XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820963164433,"sku":"NLS9781589798977","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781589798977.jpg?v=1750720756"},{"product_id":"coppola-s-monster-film-book-steven-travers-9781476664255","title":"Coppola's Monster Film","description":"In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. 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