Product Description: The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith’s paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship between the Klan’s success and its use of film and media in the interwar years when the image, function, and moral rectitude of the Klan was contested on the national stage...read more

Product Description: [Read by Pam Ward] A sweeping study of Hollywood and politics that addresses the state of media and politics today Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy...read more

Product Description: Traditional interpretations of the 1950s have emphasized how American anti-communists deployed censorship and the blacklist to silence dissent, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Yet as Andrew J. Falk demonstrates, those efforts at repression did not always succeed...read more

Product Description: Much has been written about the history of Communism in America, including the Party's appeal to many in the Hollywood community of the 1930s and 40s. While several books have offered standard accounts of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the blacklist in the entertainment industry, Alan Casty provides a fresh and provocative perspective...read more

A young woman, rescued from poverty by a benevolent mistress, gains control of a southern plantation and ultimately banishes or destroys anyone who questions her power

Explores the connection between Hollywood and Washington and offers an inside look at a relationship that has transformed American political culture