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Culled from three decades of interviews with the legendary Hollywood star, his wife, and his fellow performers a portrait of Jimmy Stewart documents his life and career, from his education at Princeton and early Broadway achievements to his movie successes and political beliefs.

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Michael Munn is a film historian and the author of twenty-five books, includingStars at War, The Hollywood Connection, Richard Burton, and the bestsellerJohn Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth. As a journalist, he has written extensively on cinema, crime, ancient history, and World War II. He lives in Suffolk, England.

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Ask a younger audience about Gary Cooper or Spencer Tracy, and you might get a blank stare. Jimmy Stewart, thanks to It’s a Wonderful Life, hasn’t suffered the same fate. Stewart’s fans are in for a treat with this anecdote-filled biography, which features a major bombshell: for years, Stewart provided undercover reports to the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover. Among the nuggets mined here: the rift over politics between conservative Stewart and his liberal best friend, Henry Fonda; Stewart being tempted by Grace Kelly; and how Stewart wanted to help Hoover rout the Mafia from Hollywood but ended up naming Communists. Unfortunately, these revelations and the text as a whole could have been better documented. Appended is a list of sources, but as Munn, a friend of both Stewart and Stewart’s wife, Gloria, testifies, it’s limited to “who I’ve quoted . . . along with the year (as best I can remember it)” and the location. Much of the information comes from phone calls and social chats with Gloria Stewart. Did Munn really write everything down? Still, shaky bona fides aside, this a fun Old Hollywood bio. --Ilene Cooper

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