John Wayne's America
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John Wayne's America

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

John Wayne's America

About this book

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality—the biography of an idea—Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our cultoure to a degree unmatched by any other public figure of his time. In Wills's hands, Waynes story is tranformed into a compelling narrative about the intersection of popular entertainment and political realities in mid-twentieth-century America.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780684838830
eBook ISBN
9781439129579

INDEX

Abbey Theatre, 237
Abie’s Irish Rose (film), 335
Academy Awards, 58, 149, 195, 270, 312
Alamo and, 227
Informer and, 246, 247
of JW, 114, 287
Lang and, 114, 333
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 332–33
Achilles, 257–58
Across the Pacific (film), 110
Across the Wide Missouri (De Voto), 164
Action in the North Atlantic (film), 110
Adams, Ansel, 305
Adams, Henry, 165, 304
Adventures of Bob and Bill, The (commercial shorts), 41
African Queen, The (film), 296–97
African Queen, The (Forester), 296, 349
Agamemnon, 257
Agar, John, 156, 179
riding of, 171–72, 327
Agee, James, 296
Ailes, Roger, 30
Air Force, U.S., 171
Alamo:
Alamo and, 15, 19, 24, 62, 70, 191, 196, 198, 200, 202–3, 224–28, 230, 341–45
description of, 207–8, 217–18, 344
early films about, 204–5, 341–342
Fiesta in honor of, 219
history of, 207–10
JW’s visit to, 202
legend of, 206–7, 210–15, 342–343
size of, 207–8
Vietnam War and, 204, 206, 228, 342
Alamo Rangers, 219
Allen, Elizabeth, 278
Allen, Woody, 306
Amarcord (film), 180
Ambrose, Saint, 304
American Indians, 159, 181–84, 337, 340
Bellah’s views on, 166
in “Big Hunt,” 179
in Big Jake, 291, 293
captivity narrative and, 252
Catholic, 252, 347
in Fort Apache, 170, 172–76
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue: The Most Dangerous Man
  4. Introduction: Scope of the Book
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. One: Inventing a Cowboy
  7. Two: John Ford
  8. Three: Inventing Another Cowboy
  9. Four: Empire
  10. Five: Propaganda
  11. Six: Later Ford and Hawks
  12. Seven: A Third Cowboy
  13. Conclusion: American Adam 302
  14. Photographs
  15. Notes
  16. Index of Wayne Films Considered
  17. Index
  18. Copyright