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Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated--the vital shaping role played by executive producer David O. Selznick.

In this book, Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference. Drawing on ten years of research in the Selznick archives, and examining the screenplay's successive drafts, dramatic continuity...

John Verdries has a spirit for adventure in the wilderness. He joins with proven frontiersmen for Long Hunts drawn by exploration and profit. Danger, tragedy, and stunning defeat are unexpected companions to success and profit. Memories of Friederick's long forgotten values and Caitlin's hypnotic promise change the course of his life. As a man who is part of the warp and woof of wilderness expansion, John finds danger, death, love, and purpose in the looming struggle between freedom, greed, hope, and history. Author Daniel R. Vertrees's second novel in the Man of Kentucky series, speaks of...