Benjamin Wittes
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300092523
- eISBN:
- 9780300127485
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300092523.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter explains Kenneth Starr's truth commission understanding of the independent counsel statute, which manifested itself subtly during the early portions of his investigation. That subtlety, ...
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This chapter explains Kenneth Starr's truth commission understanding of the independent counsel statute, which manifested itself subtly during the early portions of his investigation. That subtlety, to some extent, resulted from the density of the probe's often mind-numbing subject matter. Few members of the public understood even the parameters of the questions at issue in Whitewater, much less how Whitewater intersected with Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, the Castle Grande real estate deal, the death of White House aide Vincent Foster, Jr., or—more tenuously—to the White House Travel Office or the FBI files scandal. Especially before the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted in 1998, the incidents that gave rise to the constituent parts of Starr's investigation tended to embroil the press and Washington's political culture far more than they did the public at large.Less
This chapter explains Kenneth Starr's truth commission understanding of the independent counsel statute, which manifested itself subtly during the early portions of his investigation. That subtlety, to some extent, resulted from the density of the probe's often mind-numbing subject matter. Few members of the public understood even the parameters of the questions at issue in Whitewater, much less how Whitewater intersected with Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, the Castle Grande real estate deal, the death of White House aide Vincent Foster, Jr., or—more tenuously—to the White House Travel Office or the FBI files scandal. Especially before the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted in 1998, the incidents that gave rise to the constituent parts of Starr's investigation tended to embroil the press and Washington's political culture far more than they did the public at large.
Marsha Gordon
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190269746
- eISBN:
- 9780190657291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190269746.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter explores Fuller’s first forays into the representation of hot war in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets! (1951). This pair of ...
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This chapter explores Fuller’s first forays into the representation of hot war in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets! (1951). This pair of films introduced Fuller to his first run-ins with the political status quo when they triggered both FBI and Department of Defense investigations into his political sympathies and affiliations. This chapter demonstrates how the Hollywood film industry and the government worked together to shape war films in this period. The Steel Helmet was condemned by communists as pro-American and by anti-communists as pro-communist. In the case of Fixed Bayonets!, while the Department of Defense withheld support, the army endorsed the film.Less
This chapter explores Fuller’s first forays into the representation of hot war in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets! (1951). This pair of films introduced Fuller to his first run-ins with the political status quo when they triggered both FBI and Department of Defense investigations into his political sympathies and affiliations. This chapter demonstrates how the Hollywood film industry and the government worked together to shape war films in this period. The Steel Helmet was condemned by communists as pro-American and by anti-communists as pro-communist. In the case of Fixed Bayonets!, while the Department of Defense withheld support, the army endorsed the film.
Barry Seldes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520257641
- eISBN:
- 9780520943070
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520257641.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. This biography of Bernstein's political life examines his career against the backdrop ...
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From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. This biography of Bernstein's political life examines his career against the backdrop of cold war America—blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport—and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. The book links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein archive, the text illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events. The book reveals often ignored intersections of American culture and political power.Less
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. This biography of Bernstein's political life examines his career against the backdrop of cold war America—blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in 1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain his passport—and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. The book links Bernstein's great concert-hall and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein archive, the text illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events. The book reveals often ignored intersections of American culture and political power.
