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George-Warren offers the first serious biography in which Gene Autry the legend becomes a flesh-and-blood man--with all the passions, triumphs, and tragedies of a flawed icon.
Author : Holly George-Warren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195372670
George-Warren offers the first serious biography in which Gene Autry the legend becomes a flesh-and-blood man--with all the passions, triumphs, and tragedies of a flawed icon.
Author : Eleanor Packer
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781436697767
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Eleanor Lewis Packer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 1938
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Author : Oliver Drake
Publisher :
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1937
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Author : Michael Duchemin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0806156716
Best known to Americans as the “singing cowboy,” beloved entertainer Gene Autry (1907–1998) appeared in countless films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and other venues. While Autry’s name and a few of his hit songs are still widely known today, his commitment to political causes and public diplomacy deserves greater appreciation. In this innovative examination of Autry’s influence on public opinion, Michael Duchemin explores the various platforms this cowboy crooner used to support important causes, notably Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and foreign policy initiatives leading up to World War II. As a prolific performer of western folk songs and country-western music, Autry gained popularity in the 1930s by developing a persona that appealed to rural, small-town, and newly urban fans. It was during this same time, Duchemin explains, that Autry threw his support behind the thirty-second president of the United States. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Duchemin demonstrates how Autry popularized Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and made them more attractive to the American public. In turn, the president used the emerging motion picture industry as an instrument of public diplomacy to enhance his policy agendas, which Autry’s films, backed by Republic Pictures, unabashedly endorsed. As the United States inched toward entry into World War II, the president’s focus shifted toward foreign policy. Autry responded by promoting Americanism, war preparedness, and friendly relations with Latin America. As a result, Duchemin argues, “Sergeant Gene Autry” played a unique role in making FDR’s internationalist policies more palatable for American citizens reluctant to engage in another foreign war. New Deal Cowboy enhances our understanding of Gene Autry as a western folk hero who, during critical times of economic recovery and international crisis, readily assumed the role of public diplomat, skillfully using his talents to persuade a marginalized populace to embrace a nationalist agenda. By drawing connections between western popular culture and American political history, the book also offers valuable insight concerning the development of leisure and western tourism, the information industry, public diplomacy, and foreign policy in twentieth-century America.
Author : American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Composers
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Author : Christopher Ketcham
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0735220980
"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199769168
John Dillinger was one of the most famous and flamboyant celebrity outlaws, and this book illuminates the significnace of his tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy of crime and violence, and the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
Author : Gene Autry
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780385032346
Gene Autry's autobiography follows him from his Oklahoma childhood, through his enormous success as Hollywood's first singing cowboy, to his current life as head of a business empire
Author : Lawrence F. Lowery
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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