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The Fighting Sullivans - How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes (Hardcover)
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The Fighting Sullivans - How Hollywood and the Military Make Heroes (Hardcover)
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In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo,
Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during
the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific.
The family's loss, the most extraordinary for the United States in
its military history, was immortalized-and valorized-in the 1944
film The Fighting Sullivans. This book tells the story of how
calamity, with the help of Hollywood and the wartime publicity
machine, transformed a family of marginal and disreputable young
men, intensely disliked in their hometown, into heroes. The
Sullivan boys joined the armed forces after Pearl Harbor, and the
US Navy accepted that they would all serve on one ship, the light
cruiser USS Juneau. The five brothers gave the navy great
publicity, but when the ship went down and survivors were not
rescued, the service faced a serious problem. The Fighting
Sullivans examines the campaign that followed, as the navy and its
partners in Hollywood turned a tragedy of errors into a public
relations victory. Bruce Kuklick shows how the myth of the Sullivan
family was created using bits and pieces of real events, but with
twists that turned the boys into superhumans and their beleaguered
parents into self-sacrificing patriots. He explores the close
relationship between Hollywood studios and the military, which
aimed to boost morale and support for the war. A study in
mythmaking, The Fighting Sullivans offers a behind-the-scenes look
at the manufacture of heroes in twentieth-century wartime America.
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