Dream West: Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies

by Douglas Brode

Book Overview

While political liberals celebrated the end of "cowboy politics" with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support "cowboy" values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and the right to bear arms. Yet, as Douglas Brode argues in this paradigm-shifting book, these supposedly cowboy or "Old West" values hail not so much from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292748280
• ISBN13: 9780292748286
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"