Tender comrades: a backstory of the Hollywood blacklist

McGilligan, Patrick and Paul Buhle; photographs by Alison Morley and William B. Winburn

ISBN 10: 0312200315 / ISBN 13: 9780312200312

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999

About this Item

xx, 776p., illus., wraps, illus., very good later printing.

Seller Inventory # 128725

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tender comrades: a backstory of the Hollywood blacklist
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312200315
• ISBN 13: 9780312200312
• Binding: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Hollywood
  • Communist Party USA
  • film cinema
  • 1950S
  • Labor - American

About this title

Synopsis

A very special oral history offers an instructive and moving chronicle of the Hollywood blacklist, showing how McCarthyism and fear deeply affected people's lives, as more than thirty survivors share their long-supressed stories. Reprint.

About the Author

Patrick McGilligan's biographies include Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast, George Cukor: A Double Life, and Jack's Life, on Jack Nicholson. Also the editor of the Backstory collections of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters, he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Paul Buhle founded the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University, and has produced more than twenty books of political history.