Article: Orson Welles: Hello Americans, vol. 2.(Book review)

Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow. New York: Viking Adult, 2006. 528 pp., illus. Hardcover: $32.95.

"It seems to me there is a plain, if many-layered, truth to be told," Simon Callow writes in his Preface to the second volume of his Welles biography--noting his impatience with academics whose sense of the truth is so far from plain that they can only countenance the term between quotation marks. It's an understandable position for him to take, but he doesn't always stick to it himself, and it's hard to see how he could. In his second chapter, he asserts that, although no evidence supports Welles's claim that Booth Tarkington had been his ...

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