Ronald Reagan in Hollywood : movies and politics / by Vaughn, Stephen, 1947-

Dark victory : Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob / by Moldea, Dan E., 1950-

All-stars & movie stars : sports in film & history /

Table of Contents: “…Basketball's great white hope and Ronald Reagan's America : Hoosiers /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Basketball's great white hope and Ronald Reagan's America : Hoosiers /…”
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Schtick : these are the poems, people / by Coval, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…Don Rickles Roasts Ronald Reagan --…”
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Yours in truth : a personal portrait of Ben Bradlee / by Himmelman, Jeff

Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution : selected essays, 1977-1992 / by Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015

Table of Contents: “…. -- Orwell's 1984 -- Ronald Reagan -- Commencement -- The character of presidents -- The beliefs of writers -- A citizen reads the Constitution -- The nineteenth New York -- False documents -- Standards -- James Wright at Kenyon -- Two Waldens.…”

Toni Morrison and the classical tradition : transforming American culture / by Roynon, Tessa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Discovery, conquest, and settlement -- The New England colonies and the founding of the New Nation -- Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction -- In search of home: the 1920s-1950s -- Fighting for rights: from Emmett Till's murder to the Ronald Reagan years -- America, Africa, and classical traditions -- Conclusion: splitting open the world.…”

Toni Morrison and the classical tradition : transforming American culture / by Roynon, Tessa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Discovery, conquest, and settlement -- The New England colonies and the founding of the New Nation -- Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction -- In search of home: the 1920s-1950s -- Fighting for rights: from Emmett Till's murder to the Ronald Reagan years -- America, Africa, and classical traditions -- Conclusion: splitting open the world.…”
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Brinkley's beat : people, places, and events that shaped my time / by Brinkley, David

Table of Contents: “…Edgar Hoover -- May Craig -- Joe McCarthy -- Everett Dirksen -- Jimmy Hoffa -- Lyndon Johnson -- Bobby Kennedy -- Ronald Reagan -- Bill Clinton -- Places: Normandy, 1944 and 1994 -- The Mediterranean -- The Mississippi -- Two cities on the edge of the Cold War -- Three beaches -- Two Birminghams -- Events: Political conventions -- The Kennedy Assassination -- A reflection on a life in broadcast news.…”

Holy war : cowboys, Indians, and 9/11s / by Anderson, Mark Cronlund, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "A mission from God" -- Polk's war : "Blessings of Heaven" -- Jesus Custer : "The bulliest day since Christ was born" -- The Mexican revolution : "A chaos of the land" -- Augusto Sandino : "Fly in the ointment" -- Rambo's Vietnam : "You just don't turn it off " -- Ronald Reagan's Nicaragua : "This shining city" -- Conclusion : "Wake-up call from God."…”
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Projecting paranoia : conspiratorial visions in American film / by Pratt, Ray

Table of Contents: “…"Our greatest export is paranoia" : visionary paranoia -- Film politics -- Dark vision of film noir -- Culture of resistance in the films of the 1960s -- "You may think you know what's going on here" : from neo-noir cynicism to conspiratorial paranoia -- Family values? : the view from Ronald Reagan's closet -- "She was bad news" : male paranoia and femme fatales -- Women and sexual paranoia -- Bad cops and noir politics -- From assassination to surveillance society.…”

The power of news / by Schudson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…-- Trout or hamburger : politics and telemythology -- The illusion of Ronald Reagan's popularity with Elliot King -- Watergate and the press -- National news culture and the informational citizen -- Was there ever a public sphere? …”

From the Civil War to the apocalypse : postmodern history and American fiction / by Parrish, Timothy, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: William Faulkner's true history of the South -- Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America -- Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon -- Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the sands of history -- History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's Democracy and Don Delillo's Underworld -- Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro : postcolonial America.…”

Museum of the Weird. by Gray, Amelia, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Babies; Waste; Unsolved Mystery; Dinner; A Javelina Story; The Darkness; The Cottage Cheese Diet; Death of a Beast; Thoughts While Strolling; Trip Advisory: The Boyhood Home of Former President Ronald Reagan; Code of Operation: Snake Farm; The Tortoise and the Hare; Fish; There Will Be Sense; Diary of the Blockage; The Cube; Love, Mortar; This Quiet Complex; Vultures; The Pit; The Picture Window; The Vanished; The Suitcase; The Movement.…”
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From the Civil War to the apocalypse : postmodern history and American fiction / by Parrish, Timothy, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: Faulkner's true history of the South -- Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America -- Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon -- Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the sands of history -- History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's Democracy and Don Delillo's Underworld -- Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro: postcolonial America.…”
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The story upon a hill : the Puritan myth in contemporary American fiction / by Leise, Christopher, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Salem and the Selling of American Selfhood -- The What That's in a Name : Settling On an American Puritanism -- Hawthorne, Gaddis, and Models of American Identity -- Alien Abduction as Captivity Nonnarrative in Slaughterhouse-Five -- Thomas Pynchon, the Sloth of Salvation, and Becoming Converted -- Rereading Puritan Spiritual Autobiography in Gilead -- Types of Exceptionalism : Colson Whitehead, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Paul Auster -- America before Puritanism : or, Toni Morrison's Decentered English Origin -- Conclusion : Tituba, Hopefully, Unknowable.…”

How I got this way / by Philbin, Regis

Table of Contents: “…Bing Crosby -- Two major marines : Major Rankin and Major Flake, USMC -- Steve Allen -- Ronald Reagan -- Walter Winchell -- Sydney Omarr -- Cary Grant -- Jack Paar -- Bill Cosby -- Joey Bishop -- Dean Martin -- Don Rickles -- John Severino -- Coach Frank Leahy -- Coach Ara Parseghian -- Coach Lou Holtz -- Kathie Lee Gifford -- Kelly Ripa -- Donald Trump -- Claudia Cohen -- George Steinbrenner -- Joe DiMaggio -- Jerry Seinfeld -- Steven Spielberg -- George Clooney -- Jack Nicholson -- Howard Stern -- Charles Grodin -- David Letterman -- Joy Philbin.…”

The story upon a hill : the Puritan myth in contemporary American fiction / by Leise, Christopher, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Types of Exceptionalism: Colson Whitehead, Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, Paul Auster; 7. America before Puritanism: or, Toni Morrison's Decentered English Origin.…”
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War, politics and superheroes : ethics and propaganda in comics and film / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…On The avengers, Star trek, and Watchmen -- Batman as terrorist, technocrat and feudal lord -- Wonder Woman as World War II veteran, feminist icon, and sex symbol -- Spider-Man as Benedict Arnold, objectivist, and class warrior -- The punisher as murderous immigration officer and Vietnam War veteran -- Superman vs. Ronald Reagan and the Ku Klux Klan -- The special relationship : Britain and America in James Bond, Doctor Who, and Hellblazer -- Tortured consciences : Jack Bauer, The Invisible Woman, and George W. …”