January 13, 2012

Books

The Way He Is

Robert RedfordThe BiographyMichael Feeney CallanAlfred A. Knopf, $29.95, 496 pp.

Timothy P. Schilling

Because it is far too easy in life to end up embodying something other than what we say we believe in, we should be grateful to those who hold us accountable to our stated ideals. Dublin-based novelist, filmmaker, and biographer Michael Feeney Callan proposes that for Americans, the movie star Robert Redford is one such person. Skeptics will be surprised at how persuasive Calla (...)


 

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