Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author
by Victor S. Navasky
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780809001835 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
With a New Afterword by the Author“An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense.” —Studs TerkelHalf 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.
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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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780809001835
- Subtitle:
- With a New Afterword by the Author
- Foreword:
- Navasky, Victor S.
- Foreword:
- Navasky, Victor S.
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Hill & Wang
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- Congress
- Subject:
- Telecommunications
- Subject:
- Film - History & Criticism
- Subject:
- United States - 20th Century
- Subject:
- Communism
- Subject:
- Motion picture industry
- Subject:
- Blacklisting of entertainers
- Subject:
- Government - Legislative Branch
- Subject:
- Film & Video - History & Criticism
- Edition Number:
- Revised Edition
- Edition Description:
- 1st Hill and Wang ed.
- Series Volume:
- vol. 13
- Publication Date:
- April 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 528
- Dimensions:
- 8.52x5.54x1.31 in. 1.45 lbs.











