Orson Welles, the prodigal genius of American cinema, finally gets the biography he deserves. David Thomson tells the story of the boy genius who became a legend with Citizen Kane and then spent the next 40 years floundering-but floundering so interestingly and gloriously that failure became an integral part of the Welles legend. 69 b&w photos throughout | Rosebud by David Thomson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters