When Hollywood Was Right
How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics
by Donald T. Critchlow
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Pub Date Nov 05 2013 | Archive Date Nov 01 2013
Description
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 U.S. Senate and of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to the highest office in the nation.
Based on extensive new research, When Hollywood Was Right will forever change how we think of Hollywood politics.
Advance Praise
“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 (Republican–California)
“While liberal movie stars vociferously proclaim that the blacklisted Hollywood Ten were innocent of any wrongdoing, Donald T. Critchlow presents the opposite view starting from the Great Depression and ending with the presidential election of Ronald Reagan. Written judiciously with passion and verve, this volume should be standard reading for anyone who wants the explanation of how Republican and Democratic partisans were driven to When Hollywood Was Right – and Left.”
– Irwin F. Gellman, Visiting Scholar of History at Franklin & Marshall College,
author of the upcoming volume, The President and the Apprentice
“This incisive, first-rate study is based on extensive archival research. When Hollywood Was Right masterfully tells how anticommunism drove film industry executives, directors, and stars, allied with business leaders, to remake the Republican Party in California after World War II. As Professor Donald T. Critchlow astutely argues, the result had national implications. These conservatives backed Richard Nixon and ultimately put one of their own, Ronald Reagan, in the White House.”
– William J. Rorabaugh, Professor of History, University of Washington, author of
The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election (2012)
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| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780521199186 |
| PRICE | $29.99 (USD) |
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