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An advert for Citizen Kane in the Motion Picture Herald, Sep-Oct 1940. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War

Orson Welles’ belief in the New Deal and his anxieties over American isolationism in the years before Pearl Harbour are inextricably entangled in the epic Citizen Kane.

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