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Martin Scorsese is a preeminent American filmmaker, and Jim Cullen is a preeminent historian of American culture. Spanning from the director's youth on the mean streets of Manhattan to the closing scene of The Irishman, this book is teeming with brilliant insight into some of the most important films of the last 50 years. Highly recommended for cinephiles and for anyone interested in the story of the American Dream. --Jonathan D. Cohen co-editor of Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today. This sweeping analysis of Martin Scorsese's films through the lens of the American Dream is a must read for the many fans of the director's work. --Louis P. Masur author of The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America

Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today. This sweeping analysis of Martin Scorsese's films through the lens of the American Dream is a must read for the many fans of the director's work. --Louis P. Masur author of The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America Martin Scorsese is a preeminent American filmmaker, and Jim Cullen is a preeminent historian of American culture. Spanning from the director's youth on the mean streets of Manhattan to the closing scene of The Irishman, this book is teeming with brilliant insight into some of the most important films of the last 50 years. Highly recommended for cinephiles and for anyone interested in the story of the American Dream. --Jonathan D. Cohen co-editor of Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

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JIM CULLEN is the author of numerous books, including Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters and From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century (both Rutgers University Press). He has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Sarah Lawrence College, and is a member of the faculty of the newly established Greenwich Country Day High School in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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