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DUKE THE LONGHORNS AMP CHAIRMAN
Steven Travers
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Description for DUKE THE LONGHORNS AMP CHAIRMAN
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became. All of it, in all its color, glory, and ugliness, came symbolically together on a hot, humid weekend in Austin, Texas. The protagonist? None other John “Duke” Wayne, the larger-than-life movie hero of countless Westerns and war dramas; a swashbuckling, ruggedly macho idol of America; the very embodiment of what the United States had become—the new Rome: the most powerful military, political, and cultural empire in the annals of mankind. Wayne, ... Read more
1966. The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became. All of it, in all its color, glory, and ugliness, came symbolically together on a hot, humid weekend in Austin, Texas. The protagonist? None other John “Duke” Wayne, the larger-than-life movie hero of countless Westerns and war dramas; a swashbuckling, ruggedly macho idol of America; the very embodiment of what the United States had become—the new Rome: the most powerful military, political, and cultural empire in the annals of mankind. Wayne, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781589798977
SKU
V9781589798977
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About Steven Travers
Steven Travers is the author of more than twenty books, including Barry Bonds: Baseball’s Superman, nominated for a Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of 2002, and One Night, Two Teams: Alabama vs. USC and the Game That Changed a Nation, a 2007 PNBA nominee, subject of the CBS/CSTV documentary Tackling Segregation, and currently in film development. A graduate of ... Read more
Reviews for DUKE THE LONGHORNS AMP CHAIRMAN
Don't pick up this book expecting to soon put it down. A veritable parade of characters populates its pages: Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev; Ted Williams and Ronald Reagan; Ward Bond and Maureen O'Hara. In The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao, towering always is John Wayne. As author Steven Travers says, Wayne became ‘an utter myth, a legend of ... Read more