History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin.
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1996], ©1996.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up"
- JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition"
- Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty"
- Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the foreign service and the military"
- Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort"
- Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test"
- All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember"
- Norma Rae : "a female rocky".