Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

The first biography of one of the most fascinating, complex, and polarizing legends of cinema's golden age, Charlton Heston, from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cary Grant, Walt Disney, and American Rebel.

With unforgettable performances such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, the anguished astronaut George Taylor in 1968's Planet of the Apes, and the eponymous Ben-Hur-for which he won an Academy Award-Charlton Heston cemented his place in the pantheon of twentieth-century Hollywood...