Hollywood Left and Right : How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through a series of gripping chapters on larger-than-life figures in American cinemaCharlie Chaplin, Louis Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold SchwarzeneggerHollywood Left and Right tells the compelling story of how Hollywood emerged as a vital center of American politics.