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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John Wayne's America
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9780684838830
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Prologue: The Most Dangerous Man
- Introduction: Scope of the Book
- Acknowledgments
- One: Inventing a Cowboy
- Two: John Ford
- Three: Inventing Another Cowboy
- Four: Empire
- Five: Propaganda
- Six: Later Ford and Hawks
- Seven: A Third Cowboy
- Conclusion: American Adam 302
- Photographs
- Notes
- Index of Wayne Films Considered
- Index
- Copyright