This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the attempts film moguls and moviemakers made to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. It illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even the radical films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the attempts film moguls and moviemakers made to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. It illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even the radical films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

Why did Israel shift from a state based on pioneering egalitarianism and ""making the desert bloom"" to one which is chiefly known for its military prowess? Colin Shindler examines Israel's shift to the right at the hands of Menachem Begin, the supposed ""disciple"" of Vladimir Jabotinsky. He demonstrates through previously unpublished sources how Israel drifted away from Jabotinsky's ideas towards a maximalist Zionism promoted by Begin.

This book traces Israel's transformation from a pioneering collective into its troubled present state. It examines the effect that the Palestinian problem has had on the Israeli state and its society.
The book explores the nature of Zionist radicalism and shows how it was strengthened by the opposition to the Camp David accord, and the polemics that have raged over the territory captured during the Six-Day War.
The book also analyzes the relationship between Israel and Diaspora, the effect on this of the Intifada and the Israeli reaction to it, and the possible consequences in this...

The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake, ' and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What are its origins? Colin Shindler traces this development from the birth of Zionism in cosmopolitan Odessa in the nineteenth century to today's Hebron, a centre of radical Jewish nationalism. He looks at central figures such as Vladimir Jabotinsky, an intellectual and founder of the Revisionist movement and Menahem Begin, the single-minded politician who brought the Right to power in 1977. Both...

The Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as 'an earthquake, ' and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What are its origins? Colin Shindler traces this development from the birth of Zionism in cosmopolitan Odessa in the nineteenth century to today's Hebron, a centre of radical Jewish nationalism. He looks at central figures such as Vladimir Jabotinsky, an intellectual and founder of the Revisionist movement and Menahem Begin, the single-minded politician who brought the Right to power in 1977. Both...