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A screenwriter who experienced blacklisting during the McCarthy era describes his road from idealist to scapegoat, detailing his Communist Party ties, his writing career, the effects of blacklisting, and his personal relationships
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An immensely alive, witty and generous memoir of the blacklist nightmare by a writer who was himself blacklisted in the anti-Communist hysteria (simply to be accused of being Red was enough to destroy a career in film, radio or television) that hit America in the 1940s and culminated in the McCarthyism of the 1950s.Bernstein vividly records his journey through the decades when mention in Red Channels meant professional death and the Hollywood community was torn between those who were willing and those who refused to obtain a reprieve by denouncing their leftist (even left-leaning) friends and colleagues to the anti-Red zealots. His book includes fascinating glimpses of leading Hollywood figures - the great and the terrible, the brave and the craven. It has been greeted with a burst of advance acclaim.
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