John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity by Garry Wills

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity Author: Garry Wills Narrator: Garry Wills Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 1, 1997 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality—the biography of an idea—Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our cultoure to a degree unmatched by any other public figure of his time. In Wills's hands, Waynes story is tranformed into a compelling narrative about the intersection of popular entertainment and political realities in mid-twentieth-century America.