We are pleased to announce a new book: The Lives of Robert Ryan, by
J.R. Jones.
 
The definitive biography of the legendary film noir actor

The Lives of Robert Ryan provides an inside look at the gifted,
complex, intensely private man whom Martin Scorsese called "one of the
greatest actors in the history of American film." The son of a Chicago
construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine,
Ryan became a star after World War II on the strength of his menacing
performance as an anti-Semitic murderer in the film noir Crossfire.
Over the next quarter century he created a gallery of brooding,
neurotic, and violent characters in such movies as Bad Day at Black
Rock, Billy Budd, The Dirty Dozen, and The Wild Bunch. His riveting
performances expose the darkest impulses of the American psyche during
the Cold War.

At the same time, Ryan's marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own sense
of conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil
rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona.
Drawing on unpublished writings and revealing interviews, film critic
J.R. Jones deftly explores the many contradictory facets of Robert
Ryan's public and private lives, and how these lives intertwined in
one of the most compelling actors of a generation. 

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