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George Lucas: A Life

byBrian Jay Jones

Focused on a Life, George Lucas brings Brian Jay Jones's biographical portrait to a complex and consequential subject. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the wider field of biography & autobiography. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. George Lucas leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Little Brown & Company

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

560

ISBN

9780316257428