Review of Raymond, From my Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics

Alongside Gene Autry, Roy and Dale portrayed movie and television cowboy and cowgirl heroes who were contemporary ancestorsincongruously riding horses on the open range and shooting six-guns amidst a modern world of telephones, radios, organized crime, world war, automobiles, and a Jeep named Nellie...

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Published in:Pacific historical review 2007-11, Vol.76 (4), p.660-662
Main Author: KOTLOWSKI, DEAN J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actors
Autry, Gene
Bush, George
Canyons
Celebrities
Clinton, Bill
Dams
Equal rights
Government
Heston, Charlton
History
Morality
Motion pictures
Movies
Political parties
Politics
Reagan, Ronald Wilson
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Summary:Alongside Gene Autry, Roy and Dale portrayed movie and television cowboy and cowgirl heroes who were contemporary ancestorsincongruously riding horses on the open range and shooting six-guns amidst a modern world of telephones, radios, organized crime, world war, automobiles, and a Jeep named Nellie Belle! (Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 2006. x + 376 pp. $27.95) Many educated, liberal-minded Americans are loath to decide which Charlton Heston they dislike more: the wooden actor famous for playing heroic figures, biblical or otherwise, in old-fashioned film epics, or the gun-toting, Second-Amendment-defending president of the National Rifle Association. Neoconservative thinkers, such as Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, advocated, among other things, equality of opportunity for all Americans, a welfare state that promoted opportunity instead of entitlement, appeals to traditional morality and religion in framing political discourse and crafting public policy, and a muscular program for Americas national defense.
ISSN:0030-8684
1533-8584
DOI:10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.660