The Birth of a Nation : How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor (...)

Description: The Birth of a Nation : How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War Very Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Minor Edgewear - Ready to Ship By -- Dick Lehr Published by -- Public Affairs Books, 2014, New York, Hardcover, xvi 343 Pages, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, 9.5" X 5.5" X 1.25", 1 lb 6 oz., ISBN -- 1586489879 / 9781586489878 [FRONT DUST JACKET FLAP]"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 that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe's father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.'s father-fled for their lives. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln's assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country. Monroe Trotter's titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s." #CinematicHistory #CuttleboneBooks #BooksBooksBooks #CivilWar #booksale #instabooks #AmericanCinema #readersofinstagram #AmericanHistory #instaread #Racism #Bookworm #BlackReconstruction #CoverArt #DWGriffith #ConfederateStatesOfAmerica #booksforsale #Books #AmericanCinema readersofinstagram #bookcollecting #Antiquarian #bibliophile #BirthOfANation #Reconstruction #Bookstagram #collectiblebooks

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