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The Birth of a Nation, how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War, Dick Lehr

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The Birth of a Nation, how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War, Dick Lehr
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The Birth of a Nation
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
889005723
Responsibility statement
Dick Lehr
Sub title
how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War
Table Of Contents
Prologue: Jan 2, 1915 -- Part I. Fathers and sons -- The legacy -- Fathers and sons: the Trotters -- Fathers and sons: the Griffiths -- The awakening: 1896-1903 -- Character work: 1896-1907 -- Part II. Finding their voices -- Trotterism: 1903-1908 -- The apprenticeship: 1908-1913 -- Fame rising, falling, circa 1913 -- Part II. A Birth of a Nation -- 1914 -- The Wilson White House -- Trotter rides the rails -- Part IV. 1915 -- Curley's our man, or not? -- Bringing down the house -- "We'll hang Tom Dixon" -- Part V. Victory & defeat -- Victory at hand -- The curtain falls -- Epilogue
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