The final victim of the blacklist : John Howard Lawson, dean of the Hollywood Ten / Gerald Horne.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Horne, Gerald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Toward commitment
  • Hollywood
  • From Hollywood to Broadway
  • Commitment
  • Theory and practice
  • Struggle
  • Fighting
  • and writing
  • Writing
  • and fighting
  • Red scare rising
  • Inquisition
  • Jailed for ideas
  • "Blacklisted"
  • The fall of red Hollywood
  • Conclusion.