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Article: John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity
- Article from:
- Journal of American Culture
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity. Garry Wills. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
More than any other Hollywood icon, John Wayne continues to resonate in the American psyche. As recently as 1995, Garry Wills notes in John Wayne's America, Wayne was voted America's favorite movie star-even though he had not made a film in nearly twenty years and had been dead since 1979. But John Wayne is much more than a movie star. For fifty years, his name has been intoned, like a reverent chant, by leaders from Douglas MacArthur to Ronald Reagan: to some, he has been the very image of the American Century. In John Wayne's America, Wills-best known for his incisive, well-written ...