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Danny Goldberg was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment, which managed the careers of Nirvana and Hole, among others, in the 1990s. His previous books include In Search of the Lost Chord, Bumping Into Geniuses, and How the Left Lost Teen Spirit.
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I wanted to like this better than I did. It’s jammed with factoids for a 252 page book, which makes it listy rather than insightful. The author’s and the book’s biases line up with my biases, but even with that, I was put off by how slanted it was. True, the book was about the entertainment industry’s participation in the resistance to Trump and MAGA. But it would have been more interesting to include more discussion about books, films and music from Trump’s supporters. The country is divided over the political issues discussed, but this book presents the entertainment industry as the leftist monolith the right often claims it is.

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dds1981 | 12 reseñas más. | Aug 19, 2023 |
point, people would know the issues that were important to them and the voters’ positions would guide the elected officials. The 1960s were the years of civil rights and antiwar movements. Music was the common denominator. During the Trump era, it became comedy. Even more important to artists were younger people whose interests in climate change, economic inequality, and gun safety were ignored by the politicians
Now, the majority of people don’t vote so the pressure is on political parties to get their supporters to the polls, aka “turning out the base.”
Today people receive their information largely from the social media, the entertainment field, and news sources that show bias rather than presenting facts. The Republicans understand this. Steve Bannon explained Trump’s strategy: The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
Pop celebrities had more Twitter followers than even the most popular democrats in Congress.” Amy Klobuchar scored well in the early debates but didn’t attract entertainers and her campaign crashed.
At the national conventions, the entertainers get more publicity and attract more people than many of the speakers. Not having big name performers was considered to be a sign of a losing campaign. The Democrats had a lot of stars. The Republicans could not attract them.
Before he ran for President, Trump was best known for owning a lot of large buildings and golf courses with his name emblazoned on them and his TV show. What was not as well known was his primary interest was self-promotion and using his office to benefit himself. “He’s interested in two things: making you afraid and telling you who to blame for it.”
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A major flaw of the book focuses on the 2020 election. A good portion of it, in particular the later chapters reads like a list – this famous person tweeted this, this musician did this, this group of actors raised x about of money for this group and so on. On the other hand, Trump illegally used songs and videos, sometimes altered, during his campaign. While on one hand this important to know the levels of engagement at all levels of popular media, on the other hand, listing does not make particularly engrossing reading.
I received a free review copy of BLOODY CROSSROADS 2020 from LibraryThing.
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Judiex | 12 reseñas más. | Nov 15, 2022 |
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
In "Bloody Crossroads 2020", Danny Goldberg provides us with an invaluable source of contemporary history, a concise and pithy survey of the last year of the Trump presidency and of the efforts by those on the cultural front line to make sure it was the last of his dismal regime. We are living in such weird times that it is a service to history that scholars, and readers in general, of the future, will have a book such as this that documents that the bizarre events of these times really did happen.

Goldberg begins with a brief history of resistance by American popular culture to fascism, starting with Charlie Chaplin's 1940 film "The Great Dictator". In the film Chaplin uses a satiric parody of Hitler as "Adenoid Hynkel" to both ridicule the Nazis and warn Americans of the danger of ignoring their threat to democracy.

Donald Trump had already demonstrated that he is a misogynistic, racist homophobe before his election in 2016, but his reference to "very fine people on both sides" after the deadly neo-Nazi riot at Charlottesville in 2017 alerted many Americans to the fact that he poses an existential threat to democracy in the United States. This became more obvious in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, as many American entertainers, from Bruce Springsteen to Harry Belafonte, took up the cause of Black Lives Matter, and Trump's campaign appealed to the blatant racism of the MAGA base.

Fortunately, Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused to accept defeat and instead incited the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He is still very dangerous, but the "Red Wave" of 2020 was more like a ripple. Perhaps there is hope for American democracy after all.
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