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History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past
- Title
- History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin.
- Author
- Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFL 96-13880 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- xii, 267 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
- 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".
- Call Number
- MFL 96-13880
- ISBN
- 0252020731 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252065360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95041734
- OCLC
- 33206625
- Author
- Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-
- Title
- History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 96-13880