Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans

“Unfailingly intelligent and well written . . . Vivid and three-dimensional.” — Variety The first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly entertaining, definitive work" by Entertainment Weekly . Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the years following Citizen Kane up to the time of Macbeth , in which Welles's Hollywood film career unraveled. In close and colorful detail, Callow offers a scrupulous analysis of the factors involved, revealing the immense and sometimes self-defeating complexities of Welles's temperament as well as some of the monstrous personalities with whom he had to contend.