...This introductory chapter first describes how the civil rights movement shaped the contours of Sidney Poitier's career and how he shouldered political burdens unusual to movie stars. It then characterizes Poitier as an artist, a man, and as an American. Brando Marlon Brown H Rap King Martin...

.... The discussion begins by focusing on the Fania All Stars' largest salsa concert, at the Yankee Stadium in New York City in the fall of 1973. It then looks at the contribution of the film Salsa to the commercial explosion of salsa. The salsa boom is also analyzed from the standpoint of the stars...

... chronicles how the creative class has both expressed and influenced the American relationship with Israel. The galaxy of stars who have made headlines for their trips includes Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Leonard Bernstein, James Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Madonna, and Scarlett Johansson...

...The fourth chapter exposes the experience of screen players and particularly of movie stars. It shows how famous actors such as Clark Gable, Katherine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford were subjected to two seemingly contradictory types of management. On the one hand, together with film extras, character...

...This chapter recounts the process of upgrading certain older apparel, a transnational process led by the wealthy and famous, including rich collegians, titled nobility, and rock stars like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Celebrations of affluence, elitism, individuality, and fame framed this path...

... Liberty Deferred, alongside Stars and Bars, a satirical newspaper developed by the Hartford Negro Unit but usually credited solely to the white dramatist Ward Courtney. Both newspapers position white and Black spectators as objects of the Black gaze and both mock the pretensions...

...This chapter argues that the antibusers were heirs of the protesters of the 1960s, even as they reacted against them and their values. While the antiwar radicals had sometimes burned American flags, antibusing demonstrations were often festooned with hundreds of handheld Stars and Stripes. Yet...

...This chapter explores the beginnings of salsa in New York City, with emphasis on the role of the ballroom called Cheetah. More specifically, it discusses the significance of the Cheetah in the development of salsa because of the Fania All Stars orchestra's performance there on August 21, 1971...