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John Wayne's America
The Politics of Celebrity
Author: Garry Wills
Narrator: Garry Wills
Abridged: 2 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 03/01/1997
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
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.