Ronald Reagan in Hollywood explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics through the prism of Reagan's film career at Warner Bros. During the Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War era, the film industry served as a 'grand, world-wide propaganda base' using movies to influence attitudes about patriotism, national defence, communism, the welfare state, race, sex, and civil liberties. Ronald Reagan thrived in this environment. During his years in Hollywood from 1937 to 1952 he formed many of the ideas which were later carried into his presidency. Not merely a star, Reagan also became an articulate industry spokesperson and skilled propagandist, playing an important role in the battle to 'capture the minds' of humanity in the struggle against communism. By the time he left Warner Bros. in 1952, Reagan had abandoned his New Deal liberalism and had become a militant anti-communist. Based on hundreds of interviews (including some with Reagan himself), formerly secret FBI files, and material from more than 150 archival collections, this is the most comprehensive book on this subject to date, providing incisive analysis of Reagan's formative years in Hollywood.
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'Anyone in doubt that motion pictures influence society will find ample food for thought in this incisive examination of how Hollywood 'turned dreams into reality.' Empire
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Steven Vaughn's book explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics through the prism of Reagan's film career at Warner Bros.
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Although it was almost midnight when the train pulled into the Frisco Depot in Springfield, Missouri, in early June 1952, more than seven hundred people were waiting to see the star of a new film called The Winning Team. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Although it was almost midnight when the train pulled into the Frisco Depot in Springfield, Missouri, in early June 1952, more than seven hundred people were waiting to see the star of a new film called The Winning Team. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
juke girl, brother rat, motion picture unit, story file, compensating moral values, publicity file, contract files, marquee value, executive council meeting, guild president, unfriendly witnesses, jurisdictional disputes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Warner Bros, United States, World War, Jack Warner, Ronald Reagan, Screen Actors Guild, Motion Picture Industry Council, Secret Service, Los Angeles, Kings Row, New York, American Legion, Santa Fe Trail, Hollywood Ten, International Squadron, Harry Warner, Pearl Harbor, Angels Wash Their Faces, Des Moines, New Deal, War Department, Hays Office, White House, Brother Rat, Dore Schary New!
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- The Voice of the Turtle. by John van Druten on 4 pages
- Most Secret War (Classics of World War II the Secret War) by R. V. Jones in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Hollywood on Ronald Reagan: Friends and enemies discuss our president, the actor by Doug McClelland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Historian and Film by Paul Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Movie-made America: A social history of American movies by Robert Sklar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication) by Steven Alan Carr on 5 pages
- Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film by John Bodnar in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons by Paul Lettow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Movies and the Reagan Presidency: Success and Ethics by Chris Jordan on page 50, and Back Matter
- From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics by Emilie Raymond in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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