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100 1 Horne, Gerald
245 14 The Final Victim of the Blacklist :|bJohn Howard Lawson,
Dean of the Hollywood Ten
250 1st ed
264 1 Berkerley :|bUniversity of California Press,|c2006
264 4 |c©2006
300 1 online resource (385 pages)
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505 0 Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1.
Beginnings -- 2. Toward Commitment -- 3. Hollywood -- 4.
From Hollywood to Broadway -- 5. Commitment -- 6. Theory
and Practice -- 7. Struggle -- 8. Fighting-and Writing --
9. Writing-and Fighting -- 10. Red Scare Rising -- 11.
Inquisition -- 12. Jailed for Ideas -- 13. "Blacklisted" -
- 14. The Fall of Red Hollywood -- Conclusion -- Notes --
Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J --
K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -
- W -- Y -- Z
520 Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten-
-the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted
because of their varying ties to the Communist Party--John
Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant,
successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the
Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s, with several hits
to his credit including Blockade, Sahara, and Action in
the North Atlantic. After his infamous, almost violent,
1947 hearing before the House Un-American Activities
Committee, Lawson spent time in prison and his lucrative
career was effectively over. Studded with anecdotes and
based on previously untapped archives, this first
biography of Lawson brings alive his era and features many
of his prominent friends and associates, including John
Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles
Chaplin, Gene Kelly, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway,
Humphrey Bogart, Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner, Jr., and
many others. Lawson's life becomes a prism through which
we gain a clearer perspective on the evolution and
machinations of McCarthyism and anti-Semitism in the
United States, on the influence of the left on Hollywood,
and on a fascinating man whose radicalism served as a foil
for launching the political careers of two Presidents:
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. In vivid, marvelously
detailed prose, Final Victim of the Blacklist restores
this major figure to his rightful place in history as it
recounts one of the most captivating episodes in twentieth
century cinema and politics
588 Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other
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590 Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access
may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated
libraries
650 0 Lawson, John Howard, -- 1894-1977.;Dramatists, American --
20th century -- Biography.;Screenwriters -- United States
-- Biography.;Blacklisting of authors -- United
States.;Communism and literature -- United States --
History -- 20th century.;Theater -- New York (State) --
New York -- History -- 20th century.;Motion picture
industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
655 4 Electronic books
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