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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Zola Hoehn - Wag the Dog

I chose to read the book Wag the Dog because the book and the movie looked interesting and seemed to have a different plot. Considering that it incorporated both politics and film into the book, it created a different type of story about how a GOP chairman created a plan to help keep the President in office. I thought that this book was really cool because it was coming from an actual event that occurred which to me made it better because it was factual but still had elements of fiction brought into it. I also thought it was interesting how originally the book was published as “American Hero” but after the film was released it was republished under “Wag the Dog”.
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4 comments:

Unknown said...

I also was attracted to Wag the Dog due to its real life people incorporated as characters into the story. The involvement of both Hollywood and politics was an element that I definitely had not expected.

Mikayla Rogers

July 21, 2014 at 10:09 PM
Unknown said...

Zola, I really wish that I read your book it sounds really interesting, yet challenging at the same time. It would have been cool to read, and try to find all of the parts where they had mixed politics and film together, and see how they mixed them together. I bet the movie was awesome. -Andrew Meyer

July 23, 2014 at 12:15 PM
Lincoln APUSH 2 said...

I'm regretting not doing a book with a movie because it seems really interesting to look at the comparisons made between the two.

Joe Thyer

August 19, 2014 at 5:22 PM
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