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020    $a 9781621572060
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050 00 $a PN1993.5.U6 $b R97 2015
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100 1  $a Ryskind, Allan H.
245 10 $a Hollywood traitors : $b blacklisted screenwriters : agents of Stalin, allies of Hitler / $c Allan H. Ryskind.
264  1 $a Washington, DC : $b Regnery History, $c [2015]
300    $a xxi, 506 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm
504    $a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0  $a The Stalinist Ten -- The birth of the Screen Writers Guild -- "Communism ... must be fought for" -- Anti-fascist, or pro-Stalin? -- The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League -- The pro-Hitler Congress -- Red and brown sabotage -- The American peace mobilization goes to war -- Red propaganda in films -- Blockade: the party targets Spain -- Ninotchka slips through a red filter -- Red heyday in Hollywood -- Mission for Stalin -- The great escape -- The anti-Communists weigh in -- The Cold War begins -- Screenwriters embrace a comintern agent -- HUAC -- More friendly witnesses -- Phil Dunne's strange crusade -- The writers self-destruct -- Portents of disaster -- The screen writer: red as a rose -- Emmet Lavery's critical turnaround -- The blacklist begins -- Game, set, match -- Herb Sorrell and the CSU strike -- Reagan outwits the reds -- The silencing of Albert Maltz -- Dalton Trumbo, Communist conformist -- From pacifist to holy warrior -- Lillian Hellman: scarlet woman, scarlet lies -- Donald Ogden Stewart: Hollywood revolutionary -- John Howard Lawson: the CP's "grand pooh-bah" -- Elia Kazan deserved his Oscar -- Arthur Miller: was he or wasn't he? -- The curious case of Michael Blankfort -- Reds on the blacklist -- Rehabilitating ex-reds -- Red reminiscences -- Hollywood today.
520    $a "Exposes [what the author sees as] the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the 'Hollywood Ten' brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch-hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech. [He claims that] the truth is shocking: not only did these supposed liberal paragons adore Josef Stalin and take their orders directly from the Communist Party, but they also sympathized with Adolf Hitler"--Amazon.com.
650  0 $a Motion picture industry $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century.
650  0 $a Blacklisting of authors $z United States $x History $y 20th century.
650  0 $a Screenwriters $x Political activity $z United States.
650  0 $a Communism and motion pictures $z United States $x History.
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