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You Can Always Get What You Want: On “The Big Chill” and American Politics
Henry M. J. Tonks explains how Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Big Chill” gets generational politics all wrong—and why we still need to watch it.
Henry M. J. Tonks
Henry M. J. Tonks is a PhD candidate at Boston University, where he researches the history of the Democratic Party from the 1970s to the 1990s. His research is concerned with how modern American liberalism was reshaped at the intersection of global politics and national industrial decline.