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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-28 09:43:46.
(Language: English)
 
Hollywood sentimentally weeps over those blacklisted in moments of anti-Communist fervor (over real Communists, by the way; analogies to "witch hunts" are goofy). But what about Hollywood actors, screenwriters, and others prevented from working? This book tells the story of the first real blacklist, when you weren't likely to see a good capitalist portrayed on the screen. It also speaks of the hypocrisy of "The Hollywood Ten", some of whom had participated fervently in Anti-Nazi Leagues...until the day Stalin signed the Hitler-Stalin pact, when suddenly all American Communists seemed to parrot effortlessly what Moscow was saying about this betrayal: "Fascism is a matter of taste; we shall struggle for peace now." Their motto was "The Yanks Are Not Coming"--although it had to be changed a few weeks later when Hitler invaded "the motherland", as Lillian Hellman referred to Russia.
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