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Showbiz Politics - Hollywood in American Political Life written by Kathryn Cramer Brownell performed by Pam Ward on CD (Unabridged)

Showbiz Politics - Hollywood in American Political Life written by Kathryn Cramer Brownell performed by Pam Ward on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781483027296
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  History - USA
Duration:  690 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Narrator 1:  Pam Ward

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Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president, in no small part because of his innate television savvy. But as Kathryn Brownell shows, Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollywood studio system. Since the 1920s, politicians and...

professional showmen have developed relationships and built organizations institutionalizing Hollywood styles, structures, and personalities in the American political process.

Brownell explores how similarities developed between operating a studio, planning a successful electoral campaign, and ultimately running an administration. Using their business and public relations know-how, figures such as Louis B. Mayer, Bette Davis, Jack Warner, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Reagan, and members of the Rat Pack made Hollywood connections an asset in apolitical world being quickly transformed by the media. Brownell takes listeners behind the camera to explore the negotiations and relationships that developed between key Hollywood insiders and presidential candidates from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, analyzing how entertainment replaced party spectacle as a strategy to raise money, win votes, and secure success for all those involved.

She demonstrates how Hollywood contributed to the rise of mass-mediated politics, making the twentieth century not just the age of the political consultant but also the age of showbiz politics.

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