“See, life and the real stuff of life aren’t always the same thing, Warden — like, one don’t always give you the other, you follow? So sometimes, to get your story across, you gotta work a different angle or two, use a few tricks, zap it up with a bit of spectacle — I mean, what’s spectacle? it’s a kind of vision, am I right?” — the character Cecil B. DeMille in Robert Coover’s novel The Public Burning
Coming Soon
In July 2016, Oxford University Press will be publishing my book, Liking Ike: Eisenhower, Advertising, and the Rise of Celebrity Politics. Over the next months, I will be populating this site with blog posts, videos, and images related to the Eisenhower stars and what they tell us about American political culture today.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Coming Soon