Oliver Stone’s USA: Film, History and Controversy
Authors: Robert Brent Toplin (Editor), Oliver Stone (Commentary)
This book brings Stone face-to-face with some of his most thoughtful critics and supporters and allows Stone himself ample room to respond to their views. Featuring such luminaries as David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Walter LaFeber, and Robert Rosenstone, these writers critique Stone's most contested films to show how they may distort, amplify, or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict.
These essays--on Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The...