History by Hollywood : the use and abuse of the American past / Robert Brent Toplin.
Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.Description: xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0252020731 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0252065360 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 791.43/658 20
- PN1995.9.H5 T66 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Mississippi Burning : "a standard to which we couldn't live up" -- JFK : "fact, fiction, and supposition" -- Sergeant York : "if that is propaganda, we plead guilty" -- Missing : "an assault on the integrity of the U.S. government, the Foreign Service and the military" -- Bonnie and Clyde : "violence of a most grisly sort" -- Patton : "deliberately planned as a Rorschach Test" -- All the President's men : "the story that people know and remember" -- Norma Rae : "a female rocky".