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Jennifer Frost - Hedda Hopper's Hollywood - 9780814728239 - V9780814728239
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

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Description for Hedda Hopper's Hollywood Hardcover. The roaring history of the famed gossip columnist's grip on America's popular and political culture Series: American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFC; JPFM; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.

Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52-year-old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood,” that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout Hollywood’s golden age. Often eviscerating moviemakers and stars, her column earned her a nasty reputation in the film industry while winning a legion of some 32 million fans, whose avid support established her as the voice of small-town America. Yet Hopper sought not ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
American History and Culture Series
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814728239
SKU
V9780814728239
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Jennifer Frost
Jennifer Frost is Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and author of “An Interracial Movement of the Poor”: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s, Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservativism, and Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War.

Reviews for Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood is a well researched and written account of Hopper's career...Frost's book reminds us that while technology has advanced, the deep fissures of American politics and culture from the post war era remain with us, undermining efforts to promote toleration, dialogue, and respect for diverse opinions.
History News Network
Readers get a study of Hoppers politics ... Read more

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