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The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War
The Birth of a Nation How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War
Author: Dick Lehr
In 1915, two men?one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker?incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. Monroe Trotter and D.W. Griffith were fighting over a film, a dazzling new photoplay that dramatized the Civil War...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781586489878
ISBN-10: 1586489879
Publication Date: 11/4/2014
Pages: 368
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Hardcover
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