Description: The first full-scale biography of the great American illustrator whose vision of Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, The Last of the Mohicans, and other classics has resonated in the minds of generations of Americans. The story of a man who, despite his immense success, believed he was a failure as an artist -- never seeing himself as the serious painter that his son Andrew and grandson Jamie were later proclaimed to be.

Instead, N. C. Wyeth found in fatherhood his most satisfying achievement. Although his own childhood was anything but idyllic -- and we see how his mother's instability and his father's rigidity set the stage for his profoundly divided personality -- N. C. Wyeth made an enchanting world for his children. He held them enthralled through their adult lives. He shepherded his daughter Ann's career as a composer, and taught his daughters Henriette and Caroline, and his son Andrew (N. C. was Andrew's only teacher), to paint.

David Michaelis has given us a fully realized portrait of a huge-spirited, deeply complicated man, a nurturing father, an artist whose theme was conflict -- illustration after illustration pictured two men locked in struggle. And we see, through three Wyeth generations, a charismatic family and an idyllic America that was fast vanishing.

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