He Lives In The Echoes: A Mini-Biography of JC Leyendecker and Charles Beach

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This short overview of a lifetime of love, tragedy, and fame is the true story of the Golden Age illustrator Joseph Christian Leyendecker and his partner, Charles Beach. JC was a child prodigy who grew up to be the most famous illustrator in America, and Charles was a lonely and uneducated model from Canada. New York City brought them together, and JC turned Charles’ image into the Arrow Collar Man, the country’s first mainstream sex symbol. But being gay and famous are two worlds that don’t mix well, they soon discover…