Lawrence of Arabia and American Culture The Making of a Transatlantic Legend
Westport, Connecticut, USA: Greenwood Presss, 1995. Tall octavo, black cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, xiii, 196 pp., four additional leaves at end (unpaginated), frontispiece, nine black-and-white photographs included, one appendix included. Very light spotting on endpapers and edges of text block, spine of dust-jacket slightly faded, light foxing inside dust-jacket; otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition. Scholar Joel C. Hodson analyses the role America – and specifically American journalist Lowell Thomas – had on the making of the legend of Lawrence of Arabia. In this considered study, Hodson reveals the extend of Anglo-American cultural interplay and the popular cultural machinery involved in Lawrence's legend and the "commercial industry" it spawned, including the many texts and films written about, and inspired by, him. O'Brien, E477. Item #4859
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