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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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