THIS FOR JAMES DEAN AMERICAN ICON 1st Edition Photography Biography BOOK. TEXT BY DAVID DALTON AND PHOTO EDITOR RON CAYEN. WITH INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN SHEEN.

This hagiographic work contains an enormous collection of hitherto unpublished photos showing Dean as a child, student and actor both on Broadway and in his three major Hollywood films (East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. The text is a melange of quotations from previous eulogists and of pretentious attempts to analyze Dean's attraction. PW remarked: "Dean's insatiable fans will doubtless be sucked in by this ridiculous scrapbook's elegant layout.