When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics, Hardcover - Donald T. Critchlow

Reducere. Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, and Southern Californ...

Reducere. Contrary to warnings about the dangers of populism, Donald F. Critchlow argues that grassroots activism is essential to party renewal within a demo...

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The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, an...

Conspiracy theories have been a part of the American experience since colonial times. There is a rich literature on conspiracies involving, among o...

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The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gary A. KocaThis book provides information on 25 leading motion picture stars of the 1930's, 40's, and 50's who were relati...

Reducere. THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT! A NEW EDITION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY IN 1991, THE KENNEDY BROTHERS first published The South Was Right!, launching the modern mo...

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Tells the stories of the wily filmmakers who made an Italian 007 flick by casting Sean Connery's brother, produced a Turkish space opera by stealin...

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DescriptionAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.We love to hate the 800-pound gor...

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DescriptionThe history that the textbooks left out. For far too long, American history has been left in the unreliable hands of those that author D...

Reducere. DescriptionMy first book, entitled Forgotten Movie Stars of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, highlighted the careers of 25 stars of the Golden Era of Hollywo...

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As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

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DescriptionThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which...

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Fascinating exploration of the world's scariest dinosaur - the T. rex! Packed full of fun facts.

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How to Be a Movie Star. Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, 1941-1981 - William J. Mann

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

DescriptionIn the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over co...

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This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

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Reducere. Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are bette...