When Hollywood Was Right :
Critchlow, Donald T.
When Hollywood Was Right : - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - 224 - eBooks on Demand .
Cover; Contents; Players; Celebrities; Moguls; Politicos; Business; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Setting the Stage in the 1930s Republicans on Defense; California Politics in the '30s: Republican Disorientation, Progressive Revival; Four Cheers for Roosevelt; A Bolshevik Comes to Town: The Strange Case of Sergei Eisenstein; One Cheer and Many Tears for Sinclair; Antifascism, a Soviet Agent, and Mobilization; Entering the War; Chapter 2 Anticommunism Comes to Hollywood; California Republicans: Seeking Washington; Hardliners Mobilize the Motion Picture Alliance; Life in the Party The War for Democracy: Republicans for Thomas DeweyChapter 3 The Red Scare Hits Hollywood; The End of the Popular Front; Hollywood on Strike; The Destructive Foibles of the House Un-American Activities Committee; The 1947 HUAC Hearings Intensify Anticommunism; Backlash to the Hearings; Aftermath; Chapter 4 Nixon Plays Hollywood; Nixon Enters the Political Stage; Hollywood Applauds Nixon on Stage; Nixon Auditions for a Starring Role; Nixon, California, and 1952; California Republicans Fracture; Nixon Seeks the Role of a Lifetime; 1962: Nixon Leaves the California Stage Chapter 5 The Hollywood Right Goes for Goldwater and Finds ReaganDemocrats Triumphant; Republicans Divided; Goldwater and the Quagmire of California Presidential Politics; The Hollywood Right Rallies for Goldwater; Reagan and Goldwater; Americans Make a Choice (LBJ), Republicans Find More than an Echo (Reagan); Chapter 6 Ronald Reagan Triumph and Decline of the Hollywood Right; How Reagan Won the Governorship in 1966; Vietnam, Cultural Wars, and the Decline of the Hollywood Right; 1968: Reagan, Nixon, and a Nation in Turmoil How Ronald Reagan Won the White House (without Hollywood's Support)Manuscripts; Index
This book rediscovers the Hollywood Right, revealing how Hollywood Republicans remade America by successfully backing candidates such as Richard Nixon.
9781107597822
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry -- United States -- Influence.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-.
302.23 CRI
When Hollywood Was Right : - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - 224 - eBooks on Demand .
Cover; Contents; Players; Celebrities; Moguls; Politicos; Business; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Setting the Stage in the 1930s Republicans on Defense; California Politics in the '30s: Republican Disorientation, Progressive Revival; Four Cheers for Roosevelt; A Bolshevik Comes to Town: The Strange Case of Sergei Eisenstein; One Cheer and Many Tears for Sinclair; Antifascism, a Soviet Agent, and Mobilization; Entering the War; Chapter 2 Anticommunism Comes to Hollywood; California Republicans: Seeking Washington; Hardliners Mobilize the Motion Picture Alliance; Life in the Party The War for Democracy: Republicans for Thomas DeweyChapter 3 The Red Scare Hits Hollywood; The End of the Popular Front; Hollywood on Strike; The Destructive Foibles of the House Un-American Activities Committee; The 1947 HUAC Hearings Intensify Anticommunism; Backlash to the Hearings; Aftermath; Chapter 4 Nixon Plays Hollywood; Nixon Enters the Political Stage; Hollywood Applauds Nixon on Stage; Nixon Auditions for a Starring Role; Nixon, California, and 1952; California Republicans Fracture; Nixon Seeks the Role of a Lifetime; 1962: Nixon Leaves the California Stage Chapter 5 The Hollywood Right Goes for Goldwater and Finds ReaganDemocrats Triumphant; Republicans Divided; Goldwater and the Quagmire of California Presidential Politics; The Hollywood Right Rallies for Goldwater; Reagan and Goldwater; Americans Make a Choice (LBJ), Republicans Find More than an Echo (Reagan); Chapter 6 Ronald Reagan Triumph and Decline of the Hollywood Right; How Reagan Won the Governorship in 1966; Vietnam, Cultural Wars, and the Decline of the Hollywood Right; 1968: Reagan, Nixon, and a Nation in Turmoil How Ronald Reagan Won the White House (without Hollywood's Support)Manuscripts; Index
This book rediscovers the Hollywood Right, revealing how Hollywood Republicans remade America by successfully backing candidates such as Richard Nixon.
9781107597822
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry -- United States -- Influence.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-.
302.23 CRI