What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America

by Gaspar González and Matthew Frye Jacobson

Book Overview

Considered by many to be the best political thriller ever made, The Manchurian Candidate is as entertaining, troubling, and relevant today as it was in 1962. Starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury, and directed with probing insight by John Frankenheimer, the film was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. Largely out of circulation for the next two decades, it acquired a well-deserved cult following until it was rereleased during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816641250
• ISBN13: 9780816641253
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"