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The definitive portrait of Hollywood’s dark high noon
TENDER COMRADES: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist
By Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle
University of Minnesota Press | 800 pages | 2012
ISBN 978-0-8166-8037-5 | paperback | $29.95
Back in print
More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. Tender
Comrades brings to light the voices of thirty-six blacklist survivors,
seminal directors, starring actresses and memorable supporting
players, top screenwriters, and many less known to the public who are
rescued from obscurity by the stories they offer here, opening a rich
window into moviemaking during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
PRAISE FOR TENDER COMRADES:
"This is not the usual book of remembrances—nostalgic, bittersweet,
and all that. This is chapter-and-verse recall of our country’s most
shameful epoch. . . . It is eloquent and revelatory, but most of all,
it is a cautionary tale." —Studs Terkel
"An acute portrait of that squalid time when the witch-hunt was on in
Hollywood and of the thirty-six movie artists interviewed here who
were deprived of a livelihood—even as hundreds of others lived in fear
of the House Un-American Activities Committee—while havoc was strewn
through their lives and their professions." —Norman Mailer
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Patrick McGilligan has written several acclaimed biographies,
including Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (a finalist
for the Edgar Award) as well as New York Times Notable Books about
George Cukor and Fritz Lang. His five-volume Backstory series is the
definitive oral history of American screenwriting.
Paul Buhle, a retired senior lecturer at Brown University and the
founder of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York
University, is the author or editor of more than forty books.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the
book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/tender-comrades
Please email me if you have any questions.
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