Dear Screen-L: The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of: The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston, is author of _Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920, Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists,_ and _Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham DuBois._ http://go.ucpress.edu/Horne "This is the best and most carefully written of the author's many books, and that is something in itself. This extraordinary treatment of one of the most interesting and controversial figures in Hollywood scene of the 1930s-40s demonstrates superior, indeed prodigious, scholarship. Decades of intense and committed research and writing have resulted in details that no one else has attempted to provide. This is an outstanding work that richly deserves our attention."-Paul Buhle, author of _Radical Hollywood_ Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten-the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party-John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s, with several hits to his credit including _Blockade, Sahara,_ and _Action in the North Atlantic._ After his infamous, almost violent, 1947 hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Lawson spent time in prison and his lucrative career was effectively over. Full information about the bookis available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Horne ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu