Naming Names - Hardcover

Navasky, Victor S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670503932 ISBN 13: 9780670503933

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1983

Synopsis

Unabashedly explores the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklisting from the perspective of the informers and cooperators, relying on oral history, interviews, and research to answer the question why they succumbed to pressure

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Review

" The moral issues raised by the Hollywood blacklist remain fearfully complex, and Victor Navasky confronts them with almost exquisite precision." -- "The New York Times"
" Navasky has done a splendid job bringing this enormous mass of facts to coherence and meaning, judging its ethical import so rigorously and fairly. "Naming Names" is must reading." -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
“The moral issues raised by the Hollywood blacklist remain fearfully complex, and Victor Navasky confronts them with almost exquisite precision.” —"The New York Times"
“Navasky has done a splendid job bringing this enormous mass of facts to coherence and meaning, judging its ethical import so rigorously and fairly. "Naming Names" is must reading.” —"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"The moral issues raised by the Hollywood blacklist remain fearfully complex, and Victor Navasky confronts them with almost exquisite precision." --"The New York Times"
"Navasky has done a splendid job bringing this enormous mass of facts to coherence and meaning, judging its ethical import so rigorously and fairly. "Naming Names" is must reading." --"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

The moral issues raised by the Hollywood blacklist remain fearfully complex, and Victor Navasky confronts them with almost exquisite precision. "The New York Times"

Navasky has done a splendid job bringing this enormous mass of facts to coherence and meaning, judging its ethical import so rigorously and fairly. "Naming Names" is must reading. "Los Angeles Times Book Review""

"The moral issues raised by the Hollywood blacklist remain fearfully complex, and Victor Navasky confronts them with almost exquisite precision." --The New York Times

"Navasky has done a splendid job bringing this enormous mass of facts to coherence and meaning, judging its ethical import so rigorously and fairly. Naming Names is must reading." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

About the Author

Victor S. Navasky, a graduate of Yale Law School, is publisher and editorial director of The Nation. The author of Kennedy Justice, he is Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670503932
• ISBN 13: 9780670503933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1