Description
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.Author: Victor S. Navasky
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 04/30/2003
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9780809001835
ISBN10: 0809001837
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Political Science | American Government | Legislative Branch
About the Author
Victor S. Navasky, a graduate of Yale Law School, is publisher and editorial director of The Nation. The author of Kennedy Justice, he is Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He lives in New York City.
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