His latest, Young Orson: The Years and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane, is the most exhaustively researched book yet written on Welles. It is a meticulous recreation of Welles’s life and ...

Early in Rosebud, McKay fills his performance with arrogance, sparkle, and extraordinary charisma, qualities that gradually fade as Welles himself becomes a 20th-century equivalent of one of his ...

My book is called Rosebud, and it's one of several on Welles since his death in 1985. The same period has seen Peter Bogdanovich's full-length interview, This Is Orson Welles , as well as the ...