Description:

The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as *The French Connection*, *The Exorcist,* and *To Live and Die in LA*, *The Friedkin Connection* takes readers from the streets of Chicago to the suites of Hollywood and from the sixties to today, with autobiographical storytelling as fast-paced and intense as any of the auteur's films. William Friedkin, maverick of American cinema, offers a candid look at Hollywood, when traditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative; when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdown. *The Friedkin Connection* includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.