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Article: Jane Fonda, Hanoi and America
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- August 13, 2001
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American Heritage and the Secret Power of the Left
In the July/August edition of American Heritage magazine, in an article titled "Ms. America," Peter Braunstein explains why, in his opinion, "Jane Fonda is a mirror of the nation's past 40 years." He says Fonda has "unusual staying power as an active public figure" because of "her uncanny ability to adopt the foliage of successive eras of American culture."
He lists the differing personae the actress has assumed. "She was libertine in the mid-- sixties, radical by decade's end, progressive in the seventies, entrepreneurial in the eighties, and corporate grande dame in the nineties."
While all that Braunstein says about her is true, I ...