With a foreword by James Pepper and an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Welles consciously conceived The Big Brass Ring as a companion piece to his masterpiece Citizen Kane. Here he is again concerned with the idea of the great man, and with what happens at the convergence of great talent, public ambition and the undertow of obscure, private longings rooted in the past.
A film of The Big Brass Ring, its script heavily edited, appeared in 1999, with William Hurt in the lead role.