Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) asks Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), about brainwashing at the hands of their patrol’s enemy captors during the Korean War. The book’s title refers to a question U.S. In their book, What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history, and African-American studies at Yale University, and Gaspar González, an independent scholar and journalist in Miami, explore the production’s origins, its political and cultural contexts, the resonance of its rerelease during the Reagan administration, and the significance of its Jonathan Demme remake in 2004. John Frankenheimer’s exceptional, and exceptionally weird, film of Richard Condon’s 1959 novel, The Manchurian Candidate, memorably melds McCarthyism and communist conspiracy.
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