When I
was very young, my grandfather kept a Rin Tin Tin figurine sitting on his desk.
I wanted desperately to play with it, and even more desperately I wanted to
have a German shepherd dog of my own, a dog just like the star of The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin, which
debuted on television in 1954. I knew nothing about Rin Tin Tin other than that
he was the perfect dog, and that he was a character on television. When by
chance I learned that Rin Tin Tin was a real dog, not just a television
character — a real dog with a real life that was extraordinary — I was drawn
into the story and eventually to the idea of writing this book. After digging
through hundreds of pages of archives and files and photographs, I came to
understand that this was not just a story about a dog, or even the many
different dogs who make up the Rin Tin Tin legacy; this is a story about a
beloved icon who has played a role in decades of American popular culture.
—Susan Orlean
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