Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles

This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in Citizen Kane in 1941. It traces the rise and fall of one of Hollywood’s greatest innovators – raconteur nonpareil, gifted with invention and awesome talent whose early success bored him and triggered the long decline into excess and self-destruction. This biography probes the essential questions surrounding Welles, realizing the ferocious energy and demonic intellect behind the boy genius.