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Elia Kazan's 1957 movie about another charismatic loudmouth who whips up a populist furor and rides it all the way to the pinnacle of power is another thing worth revisiting. It's a movie about mass media as much as about politics.
I finally read this most famous of Russian novels and loved it for its cynical, florid absurdism, and most of all for the chapter on Satan's grand ball. The writing is so over the top and the guest list so wicked, it reminded me almost of Tom Wolfe describing a 1980s Park Avenue dinner party.
This comprehensive, compulsively watchable docuseries about what happened after 9/11 features original interviews from big players in the Bush administration and beyond who played pivotal, often disastrous, roles in those years leading up to these wars we've only just disentangled ourselves from.
I recently read for the first time Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning opus of a novel based on Huey Long, a.k.a the Kingfish, a.k.a the Dictator of Louisiana. It's such a dark, riveting tale of politics, power, the press, populism and elites, and I love the way he writes about the land itself. It's all sulfuric atmospherics.
This masterpiece from 1969 unravels what life was like in one small town in France that collaborated with the Nazis. It's more than four hours, but gets better as it goes — the sort of thing you put on on a gloomy Sunday when you want to put your phone in the other room and really get lost in something.
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