When Hollywood Was Right How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics

Cover
Contents
Players
	Celebrities
	Moguls
	Politicos
	Business
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Setting the Stage in the 1930s Republicans on Defense
	California Politics in the ‘30s: Republican Disorientation, Progressive Revival
	Four Cheers for Roosevelt
	A Bolshevik Comes to Town: The Strange Case of Sergei Eisenstein
	One Cheer and Many Tears for Sinclair
	Antifascism, a Soviet Agent, and Mobilization
	Entering the War
Chapter 2 Anticommunism Comes to Hollywood
	California Republicans: Seeking Washington
	Hardliners Mobilize the Motion Picture Alliance
	Life in the Party
	The War for Democracy: Republicans for Thomas Dewey
Chapter 3 The Red Scare Hits Hollywood
	The End of the Popular Front
	Hollywood on Strike
	The Destructive Foibles of the House Un-American Activities Committee
	The 1947 HUAC Hearings Intensify Anticommunism
	Backlash to the Hearings
	Aftermath
Chapter 4 Nixon Plays Hollywood
	Nixon Enters the Political Stage
	Hollywood Applauds Nixon on Stage
	Nixon Auditions for a Starring Role
	Nixon, California, and 1952
	California Republicans Fracture
	Nixon Seeks the Role of a Lifetime
	1962: Nixon Leaves the California Stage
Chapter 5 The Hollywood Right Goes for Goldwater and Finds Reagan
	Democrats Triumphant; Republicans Divided
	Goldwater and the Quagmire of California Presidential Politics
	The Hollywood Right Rallies for Goldwater
	Reagan and Goldwater
	Americans Make a Choice (LBJ), Republicans Find More than an Echo (Reagan)
Chapter 6 Ronald Reagan Triumph and Decline of the Hollywood Right
	How Reagan Won the Governorship in 1966
	Vietnam, Cultural Wars, and the Decline of the Hollywood Right
	1968: Reagan, Nixon, and a Nation in Turmoil
	How Ronald Reagan Won the White House (without Hollywood’s Support)
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