Orson Welles: Power, Heart, and Soul

In stores April 28, 2015, from The Critical Press, Orson Welles: Power, Heart, and Soul is available in hardcover ($35) and as an ebook ($15)

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This incisive introduction to the life and work of Orson Welles is an essential study of one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. With special attention paid to the political, social, and cultural milieus in which Welles lived and worked, this essay and biographical portrait contextualizes and brings to life a filmmaker who is too often either mythologized or misrepresented, fully humanizing  the man behind masterworks like Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Chimes at Midnight, and many more.

Among the many virtues of F.X. Feeney's book is that it conveys, as no book ever has before, what it must have felt like to be Orson Welles. He manages to give us that sense through his deep empathy, understanding, and close yet still clear-eyed identification. Every reader will be grateful to him for opening the full cornucopia that was Orson Welles and analyzing those riches so acutely.

-  Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career