One thread that emerges early and often is Mantle's embodiment of the American Dream...a postwar culture moving quickly toward suburban ideation.
For Mantle, the son of a lead miner named Mutt, the triumphant golden boy who'd grown up in a clapboard house with four to a bed, a meteoric rise to stardom brought wealth and recognition beyond his wildest dreams.
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