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Title: Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist by Patrick McGilligan, Paul Buhle ISBN: 0-312-20031-5 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: They just can't get over it.
Comment: It has been nearly 50 years since the Hollywood blacklist and they just can't get over what happened. The blacklist victims were hardly "tender comrades", they were dangerous people who sought to destroy the American way of life. The real enemy is not anti-communism, but communism itself. The KGB and Venona files have confirmed that everything McCarthy said was right. Why can't they get over this? Why? They need to get over this and move on.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mesmerizing!
Comment: I love this book. Its first person accounts by the courageous men and woman who fought valiantly for social justice and economic equality for all people, and stood strong against reactionary forces are so inspiring and moving that I was often in tears.
The book is also immensely informative and even quite funny at times. It vividly presents an amazing array of personalities and is arguably the most affecting, revealing and far-reaching volume about the most shameful chapter in Hollywood's history
Tender Comrades is required reading. We are all indebted to Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle for gathering these testimonials, which are true profiles in courage.
Rating: 5
Summary: Image shattering
Comment: I grew up midwestern 1950's, in a hotbed of Mc Carthyism. Needless to mention, my ingrained image of who and what was a communist was somewhat different from the thoroughly humanized portraits that emerge in the pages of the book. Not that the interviews with individual victims of the blacklist result in glamorized or enviable cameos. They don't. Instead, we get a glimpse of what life was like for people of strong conviction who defied the fashion of their day even when it cost them dearly. The fact that most were communists was enough to demonize them in the eyes of so many of us, who, when it comes right down to it, were victims ourselves.
To those of you who have been assailed by America's peculiarly virulent strain of anti-communism, read the book. It won't make a communist of you, but it will give you second thoughts about a political culture that regularly demonizes its opposition, whoever that may be. The interviews reveal not only an America that was, but in many ways an America that still is. The individual stories themselves are fascinating. The names are ones you may have seen briefly on a late night movie credit crawl. Here they come alive in their own words; names and faces that were on the screen one day, then gone the next. Not celebrities, but the kind of people who made movies memorable because they brought more than varying degrees of talent to their work, they brought social concern.
I hope the authors soon bring us a similar volume on non-Hollywood victims of the purges, of which, I gather, there were thousands. Folks without marquee names, but with their own stories to tell about how the world was made safe for democracy.
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Title: Naming Names: With a new afterword by the author by Victor S. Navasky ISBN: 0809001837 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies by Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner ISBN: 1565848195 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968 by United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities, Frank Rich, Eric Bentley, United States ISBN: 1560253681 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist by Walter Bernstein ISBN: 0306809362 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: I'd Hate Myself in the Morning by Ring Lardner Jr., Victor S. Navasky ISBN: 156025338X Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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