Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. CHAPTER ONE Edna Ferber’s America and the Fictions of History
6. CHAPTER TWO The Life of an Unknown Woman: So Big, 1923–1953 31
7. CHAPTER THREE Making Believe: Show Boat, Race, and Romance, 1925–1957 71
8. CHAPTER FOUR Marking the Boundaries of Classical Hollywood’s Rise and Fall: Cimarron, 1928–1961 113
9. CHAPTER FIVE Writing for Hollywood: Come and Get It and Saratoga Trunk, 1933–1947 153
10. CHAPTER SIX Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Giant, 1952–1957 191
11. CHAPTER SEVEN The New Nationalism: Ice Palace, 1954–1960 229
12. Notes 267
13. Selected Bibliography 305
14. Index 325