Hollywood traitors : blacklisted screenwriters : agents of Stalin, allies of Hitler /
Exposes the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the 'Hollywood Ten' brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech. The truth is shocking. Not o...
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Washington, D.C. :
Regnery History,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- The Stalinist Ten
- The birth of the Screen Writers Guild
- "Communism ... must be fought for"
- Anti-fascist, or pro-Stalin?
- The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
- The pro-Hitler Congress
- Red and brown sabotage
- The American peace mobilization goes to war
- Red propaganda in films
- Blockade: the party targets Spain
- Ninotchka slips through a red filter
- Red heyday in Hollywood
- Mission for Stalin
- The great escape
- The anti-Communists weigh in
- The Cold War begins
- Screenwriters embrace a comintern agent
- HUAC
- More friendly witnesses
- Phil Dunne's strange crusade
- The writers self-destruct
- Portents of disaster
- The screen writer: red as a rose
- Emmet Lavery's critical turnaround
- The blacklist begins
- Game, set, match
- Herb Sorrell and the CSU strike
- Reagan outwits the reds
- The silencing of Albert Maltz
- Dalton Trumbo, Communist conformist
- From pacifist to holy warrior
- Lillian Hellman: scarlet woman, scarlet lies
- Donald Ogden Stewart: Hollywood revolutionary
- John Howard Lawson: the CP's "grand pooh-bah"
- Elia Kazan deserved his Oscar
- Arthur Miller: was he or wasn't he?
- The curious case of Michael Blankfort
- Reds on the blacklist
- Rehabilitating ex-reds
- Red reminiscences
- Hollywood today.