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The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Awardwinning 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 auteurs filmsWilliam Friedkin maverick of American cinema offers a candid look at Hollywood whentraditional storytelling gave way to the rebellious and alternative when filmmakers like him captured the paranoia and fear of a nation undergoing a cultural nervous breakdownThe Friedkin Connection includes pages of black-and-white photographs