I found this more enjoyable than I expected, as I knew practically nothing about James Stewart prior to reading this. He comes over as a generally likeable man, although his politics are very different from mine, and he was definitely a racist, no matter how much the author tries to soften that and to justify it by saying that he was "of his time". The summaries of film plots were a little wearing at times, although probably made necessary by the author's decision to list every film Stewart ever made. As far as I know, I've only seen one ("It's a Wonderfu; Life"), but this book was interesting enough to make me want to watch at least a couple more. I enjoyed the fascinating insight into the studio system in Hollywood before and immediately after the War and into the Mafia involvement in Hollywood. It was interesting too to read about J. Edgar Hoover's obsessive investigation of anyone suspected of communism, "Immorality" or homosexuality, and about Stewart's involvement in that.