The Fourth War
Unclear and Present Danger
English - January 07, 2022 04:10 - 1 hour - 88.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 508 ratingsFilm Reviews TV & Film Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the sixth episode of Unclear and Present Danger, John and Jamelle discuss “The Fourth War,” a late-period John Frankenheimer film about two crusty bastards who almost start the third world war over a personal grudge match. It looks like a TV movie and it’s not that interesting, but it was good fodder for a fruitful and fascinating conversation. Jamelle brings some 19th century American political history to the table, and John uses Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” to get at some of the ideas in the film.
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New York Times front page for Friday, March 23, 1990
Janet Maslin’s New York Times review
Roger Ebert’s Chicago Sun-Times review
A book worth reading: The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780–1860