Böcker av David Smit

The Political Fiction of Ward Just uses literary, political, and diplomatic frameworks to demonstrate how the upper-class status of the ruling elites in Ward Just's political fiction influences the way they represent the interests of the nation's citizens domestically and the interests of the nation as a whole internationally.

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction.

The author studies the woman behind her public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman's first producer David O. Selznick. Bergman hid behind that image to live her life on her own terms. That life included three difficult marriages, numerous lovers, and a major scandal that stained her reputation but which she survived by creating her own legend.