Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times
"Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope."
-Rolling Stone
Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman''s masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era
The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman''s Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond.
Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan''s ascendance brought such movie events as Ja
