God by Jack Miles
Return with us to yesteryear, when cowboys were cowboys and gunslingers lurked around every corner. Today that colorful period continues to resonate in the collective imagination of red-blooded Americans everywhere--and now we have True West, which illustrates, in hundreds of full-color illustrations, how America's mass media stamped that vision so indelibly on our collective unconscious over the past century, into today. Boasting hundreds of rare and colorful movie posters, pulp magazines, television memorabilia, advertisements, paperback books, record album jackets, toys, and clothing, True West covers such hugely popular television series as Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, and Bonanza, along with classic Western novels, including Shane, The Searchers, Welcome to Hard Times and that epic of all epics, Lonesome Dove. True West bows to the icons who ruled the silver screen--Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood, to name a few, while offering up such indelible movie triumphs as Red River, The Searchers, Hud, The Wild Bunch, and Unforgiven. It also showcases the great Western comic books and comic strips--Colt, Red Ryder, Straight Arrow, and Jonah Hex--along with all those nifty toys and other ephemera that helped link kids to celluloid heroes like Hopalong Cassidy, Roy and Dale, and the ubiquitous Gene Autry. And what would the Wild West be without an accompanying soundtrack? True West reproduces the sublime album covers and sheet music that served up classic odes like Streets of Laredo and Cool Water, narrative ballads like El Paso (with Marty Robbins bedecked in his black gunfighter togs on the cover ), and High Noon.Jack Miles is a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of national magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was literary editor and a member of the editorial board for ten years. The holder of a Ph.D. He has been a Regents Lecturer at the University of California, head of the Humanities Center at Claremont Graduate University, and visiting professor of humanities at the California Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University and was a former Jesuit. God: A Biography, his debut book, earned the Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. Today, he serves as a senior advisor to the J. Dr. Miles resides in Southern California with his wife and daughter, where he works for the Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that supports art and scholarship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679418337 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679418334 |
| Title | God |
| Author | Jack Miles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 1995-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 446 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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