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Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author

Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author

Navasky, Victor S.

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryFilm StudiesUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $36.00

ISBN10: 0809001837
ISBN13: 9780809001835
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: Apr 30 2003
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Winner of the National Book Award

An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense. --Studs Terkel

Half a century later, the investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House Committee on Un-American Activities still haunts the public conscience. Naming Names, reissued here with a new afterword by the author, is the definitive account of the hearings, a National Book Award winner widely hailed as a classic.

Victor S. Navasky adroitly dissects the motivations for the investigation and offers a poignant analysis of its consequences. Focusing on the movie-studio workers who avoided blacklists only by naming names at the hearings, he explores the terrifying dilemmas of those who informed and the tragedies of those who were informed on. Drawing on interviews with more than 150 people called to testify--among them Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller--Naming Names presents a compelling portrait of how the blacklists operated with such chilling efficiency.

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