pt. 1. Framing the debate -- Introduction / Robert Brent Toplin -- Oliver Stone as historian / Robert A. Rosenstone -- Stone on Stone's image (as presented by some historians) / Oliver Stone -- A sacred mission: Oliver Stone and Vietnam / Randy Roberts and David Welky -- pt. 2. The films -- Salvador / Walter LaFeber -- Platoon / David Halberstam -- Wall Street / Martin S. Fridson -- New left, revisionist, in-your-face history: Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July experience / Jack E. Davis -- The lizard king or fake hero? Oliver Stone, Jim Morrison, and history / James R. Farr -- Oliver Stone, JFK, and history / Michael L. Kurtz -- Heaven and earth / Le Ly Hayslip -- Way cooler than Manson: Natural born killers / David T. Courtwright -- Nixon / Stephen E. Ambrose, George S. McGovern, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- pt. 3. Stone responds. On seven films / Oliver Stone -- On Nixon and JFK / Oliver Stone.
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