Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon Audiobook (Free)

The first biography of 1 of the most fascinating, complex, and polarizing legends of cinema’s golden age, Charlton Heston, through the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cary Grant, Walt Disney, and American Rebel.

With unforgettable performances such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, the anguished astronaut George Taylor in 1968’s Planet of the Apes, and the eponymous Ben-Hur-for which he won an Academy Award-Charlton Heston cemented his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century Hollywood about Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon royalty. But his fame as an professional was matched by his politics activism. A democrat in his early years, Heston became a staunch supporter of Richard Nixon and Reagan republicanism. He was also chief executive of the National Rifle Association-an outspoken crusader for gun privileges whose incendiary phrases, ‘from my cool, inactive hands’ incensed liberals and became a maxim for Second Amendment followers.

Finally, New York Times bestselling writer Marc Eliot tells the storyplot of Heston’s life and six-decade-long career in full detail. Granted exclusive access to Heston’s diaries, letters, and personal property, Eliot skillfully unfolds the complicated story of this iconic acting professional, illuminating his ideal achievements as well as his very best failures and regrets. Eliot examines what sort of son from backwoods Michigan became Hollywood’s leading heroic actor-a celebrity who not merely battled for the plumiest jobs, but to maintain his identity in the dreamscape of Tinseltown. As he lays bare this intriguing figure’s life, Eliot exposes the dirty globe of Hollywood mythmaking and Heston’s essential role in it.

Eliot’s moving, artful, and honest biography will pay tribute to this movie legend and reveals not merely how Heston’s famous persona happened, but why. Dropping new light on one of America’s ideal stars, Eliot produces an incisive and powerful portrait for both longtime fans and a generation newly finding the storied celebrity.