When Hollywood Was Right

How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such as John Wayne, Robert Taylor, George Murphy and many others, who joined studio heads Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Walt Disney and Jack Warner to rebuild the Republican Party. They found support among a large group of business leaders who poured money and skills into this effort, which paid off with the election of George Murphy to the US Senate and of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the highest office in the nation. This is an exciting story based on extensive new research that will forever change how we think of Hollywood politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-21
Mått:162 x 236 x 19 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:235
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521199186

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Donald T. Critchlow is a Professor of History at Arizona State University. He has authored and edited numerous books, including The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Made Political History (2007, revised 2011); Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism (2005); and Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government (1999). He is currently working on a data-driven book, American Democracy Now and its Future. He is editor of the Journal of Policy History, an interdisciplinary quarterly published by Cambridge University Press, and general editor of the Cambridge Essential Histories Series.

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'When Hollywood Was Right offers a lesson for today of how an embattled, factionalized Republican Party came together to elect a principled and pragmatic conservative, Ronald Reagan, to the presidency. Plus this is a damn good read.' Barry Goldwater, Jr, former United States Congressman

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Setting the stage in the 1930s: Republicans on defense; 2. Anti-communism comes to Hollywood; 3. The Red Scare hits Hollywood; 4. Nixon plays Hollywood; 5. The Hollywood Right goes for Goldwater and finds Reagan; 6. Ronald Reagan: triumph and decline of the Hollywood Right.

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