In the months before silent film icon Rudolph Valentino's death, he began a collaboration with Spanish journalist, Baltasar Fern ndez Cu . That collaboration was this book. Valentino lamented the glut of fictionalization about his life story and asked Cu to assist him in writing his true autobiography. During the spring of 1926, Baltasar Fern ndez Cu became a familiar member of Valentino's entourage as he was granted extraordinary access...