Emilie Raymond: 2 books
Stars for Freedom
Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn’t always the case. As Emilie Raymond shows, during the civil rights movement the Stars...
From My Cold, Dead Hands
Charlton Heston and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Charlton Heston is perhaps most famous for his portrayal of Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments and for his Academy Award--winning performance in the 1959 classic Ben-Hur. Throughout his long career, Heston used his cinematic status as a powerful moral force to effect social and...