The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

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Book Description
It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood, "Pauline Kael wrote of The Manchurian Candidate, John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman brainwashed in Korea and made into as assassin.

About the Author
Greil Marcus is the author of Mystery Train (1975), Lipstick Traces (1989), The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (1997/2001) and Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in the Land of No Alternatives (2000). In 2001 he taught an American Studies seminar on 'Prophecy and the American Voice' at Princeton and the University of California, Berkeley.

The Manchurian Candidate,Greil Marcus,University of California Press,0851709311,Americas (North Central South West Indies),Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture

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