Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford

Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster, $40 (656pp) ISBN 978-0-684-81161-1

Correction: Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride (Forecasts, Jan. 22) was misidentified as the first full-length biography of the filmmaker. In fact, it was preceded in 1999 by Scott Eyman's Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (Simon & Schuster, $40 592p ISBN 0-6848-1161-8), among others.

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