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Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52-year-old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, “Hedda Hopper's Hollywood,” that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout Hollywood's golden age. Often eviscerating moviemakers and stars, her column earned her a nasty reputation in the film industry while winning a legion of some 32 million fans, whose avid support established her as the voice of small-town America. Yet Hopper sought not only to build her career as a gossip columnist but also to push her agenda of staunch moral and political conservatism, using her column to argue against U.S. entry into World War II, uphold traditional views of sex and marriage, defend racist roles for African Americans, and enthusiastically support the Hollywood blacklist. While usually dismissed as an eccentric crank, Jennifer Frost argues that Hopper has had a profound and lasting influence on popular and political culture and should be viewed as a pivotal popularizer of conservatism. The first book to explore Hopper's gossip career and the public's response to both her column and her politics, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood illustrates how the conservative gossip maven contributed mightily to the public understanding of film, while providing a platform for women to voice political views within a traditionally masculine public realm. Jennifer Frost builds the case that, as practiced by Hopper and her readers, Hollywood gossip shaped key developments in American movies and movie culture, newspaper journalism and conservative politics, along with the culture of gossip itself, all of which continue to play out today. Author: Jennifer Frost Hardcover: 304 pages Company: NYU Press (2011-01-10) (2011-01-10) ISBN: 0814728235 List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $29.39 Used Price: $16.28 
In the years after World War II, American foreign policy pursued ideals of justice, freedom, and democracy while seeking at the same time national security and the containment of international communism. In The Debate over Vietnam, David Levy examines the bitter national discussion that eventually raged over the propriety, the necessity, and the morality of that involvement. Author: David W. Levy Paperback: 256 pages Company: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1995-10-01) ISBN: 0801851149 List Price: $28.00 Amazon Price: $16.50 Used Price: $0.10
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Citation Details Title: The rush to repeal: Republicans are afraid health-care reform will work.(COLUMNIST) Author: Charles R. Morris Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal) Date: August 13, 2010 Publisher: Commonweal Foundation Volume: 137 Issue: 14 Page: 6(1) Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning Author: Charles R. Morris Digital: 3 pages HTML Company: Commonweal Foundation (2010-08-13) (2011-02-10) List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95 
In Touching Raw Nerves, Paul R. Dunn offers readers a collection of 75 of his newspaper columns that were published in The Pilot newspaper of Southern Pines, North Carolina during the stormy presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Each is introduced by a timely commentary that places the column in a contemporary context. Those who appreciate his debunking of the extreme propaganda of America's far right applaud Dunn's writings. For weeks after many of his columns appear, irate conservatives may be counted upon to fill the paper with often vitriolic "Letters to the Editor" in outrageous protest.Dunn, an avowed progressive/liberal, cautions, "If you relish the reactionary carping of the likes of Bill Buckley, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy, Russ Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Pat Robertson do not, I repeat, do not buy this book. It's sure to ruin your day!" Author: Paul R. Dunn Paperback: 304 pages Company: Hamilton Books (2004-09-30) ISBN: 076182877X List Price: $43.00 Amazon Price: $34.43 Used Price: $34.42 
The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement. Moving consistently from critique to action, the book explores the political economy of the media, illuminating its major flashpoints and controversies by locating them in the political economy of U.S. capitalism. It deals with issues such as the declining quality of journalism, the question of bias, the weakness of the public broadcasting sector, and the limits and possibilities of antitrust legislation in regulating the media. It points out the ways in which the existing media system has become a threat to democracy, and shows how it could be made to serve the interests of the majority. McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy was hailed as a pioneering analysis of the way in which media had come to serve the interests of corporate profit rather than public enlightenment and debate. Bill Moyers commented, "If Thomas Paine were around, he would have written this book." The Problem of the Media is certain to be a landmark in media studies, a vital resource for media activism, and essential reading for concerned scholars and citizens everywhere. Author: Robert W. McChesney Paperback: 352 pages Company: Monthly Review Press (2004-03-01) (2004-03-01) ISBN: 1583671056 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $2.94 Used Price: $0.48
This digital document is an article from Church & State, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 640 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details Title: Conservative Christians should reconsider politics, columnist says.(PEOPLE & EVENTS) Author: Gale Reference Team Publication: Church & State (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 1, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 60 Issue: 1 Page: 16(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: Gale Reference Team Digital: 3 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2007-01-01) (2007-01-17) List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95
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Citation Details Title: Who's in charge? How the president passes the buck.(Columnist)(Column) Author: E.J., Jr. Dionne Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal) Date: April 7, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 133 Issue: 7 Page: 6(1) Article Type: Column Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: E.J., Jr. Dionne Digital: 3 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2006-04-07) (2006-10-06) List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $9.95
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Citation Details Title: Escape from Iraq: how long can the occupation last?(Columnists)(military aspects) Author: William Pfaff Publication: Commonweal (Magazine/Journal) Date: June 3, 2005 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 132 Issue: 11 Page: 7(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale Author: William Pfaff Digital: 4 pages HTML Company: Thomson Gale (2005-06-03) (2005-11-30) List Price: $5.95 Amazon Price: $5.95 
Lee Leonard covered Ohio politics for thirty-six years. This collection brings together his columns about the major figures, seminal events, and legends from the early 1970s through 2005. The historical digest covers the key issues and trends in Ohio politics and government including coverage of major campaigns, national political conventions, the governor's mansion, the Ohio legislature, and lobbying efforts. A must read for students of Ohio history and politics, and those who are interested in the inner workings of democracy.Author: Lee Leonard Hardcover: 344 pages Company: University of Akron Press (2009-12-04) ISBN: 1931968691 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $9.83 Used Price: $5.66 
Peering Through the Bushes is a running commentary on George W. Bush’s relationship to environmental issues. Rather than render a detailed documentation of the president’s performance, the book conveys a broad impressionistic picture of the causative factors, current impacts, and future implications associated with Bush’s controversial environmental policies. The author is the nation’s senior nationally syndicated environmental columnist and has been following Bush’s environmental policy-making closely enough over the years to feel comfortable making subjective judgments about the president’s character and motivation on those matters. Not surprisingly, many of Bush’s environmental positions mirror those of his father’s. But the son strays quite a bit further from the mainstream than Bush Senior ever did. Junior is much more enamored of conservative ideology than his father, and is seemingly even less convinced of the imminence and gravity of environmental threats. You can thus understand why George W. Bush’s takeover of the presidency has caused environmentalists to greet the 21st Century with trepidation. They have watched with dismay as their issues have been undermined by a discredited conservative ideological approach they thought had been put to rest when Ronald Reagan left office 15 years earlier. Suddenly, states’ rights, corporate volunteerism, and marketplace incentives were in vogue. Stringent environmental regulation and primacy of federal laws over local ones were out of favor except on the rarest of occasions. Bush gravitated towards an anachronistic unilateral stance on any number of international environmental matters, despite the United States inevitably having to operate in an ever more environmentally interdependent world. His "new" environmental approach had catapulted the nation back in time to the Reagan years, with their embarrassing and sometimes alarming ventures into isolationism. This was not an auspicious way to inaugurate a century in which humanity can be expected to either restore an ecologically stressed planet to good health or doom earth to an irreversible downward environmental spiral. The specious rhetoric heard so often during Reagan’s reign was once again emanating from the White House. Preferential treatment in environmental controversies was granted to business interests in the guise of returning some sense of "balance" with natural resources protection. Rationalizations were concocted for opening up previously protected public conservation areas to industrial activity. Brimming with animus at his predecessor’s ideological stance, sexual dalliances, and defeat of his father, George W. Bush was obsessed with rescinding as many of Clinton’s environmental initiatives as possible. Even after his inauguration, Bush displayed no sign of being able to broaden his environmental perspective beyond preconceived narrowly drawn ideological nostrums Those solutions might be applicable on occasion, but no more than that. Employing the politically correct methodology often appeared more important to Bush than reaching the correct result in environmental controversies. In the wake of the World Trade Center attack, he exhibited no recognition that reversing environmental degradation was a major component of any long-term solution to terrorism Unless there is some dramatic change, historians are certain to perceive Bush’s handling of environmental issues in public office as a tale of deception, indifference, and regulatory rollbacks. Chapter One contains entries in a diary that this author began when the president took office. As you will see, Bush engaged in his ideological vendetta against existing environmental safeguards from the get-go. Subsequent chapters deal with his motivation, character, tactics and ideology. The final chapter speculates on what the future might hold. 
Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52 year old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood, that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout Hollywood's golden age. Often eviscerating moviemakers and stars, her column earned her a nasty reputation in the film industry while winning a legion of some 32 million fans, whose avid support established her as the voice of small-town America. Yet Hopper sought not only to build her career as a gossip columnist but also to push her agenda of staunch moral and political conservatism, using her column to argue against U.S. entry into World War II, uphold traditional views of sex and marriage, defend racist roles for African Americans, and enthusiastically support the Hollywood blacklist. While usually dismissed as an eccentric crank, Jennifer Frost argues that Hopper has had a profound and lasting influence on popular and political culture and should be viewed as a pivotal popularizer of conservatism. The first book to explore Hopper's gossip career and the public's response to both her column and her politics, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood illustrates how the conservative gossip maven contributed mightily to the public understanding of film, while providing a platform for women to voice political views within a traditionally masculine public realm. Jennifer Frost builds the case that, as practiced by Hopper and her readers, Hollywood gossip shaped key developments in American movies and movie culture, newspaper journalism and conservative politics, along with the culture of gossip itself, all of which continue to play out today. Author: Jennifer Frost Kindle Edition: 298 pages Kindle eBook Company: NYU Press short (2011-01-10) (2011-01-10) List Price: $28.00 Amazon Price: |
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