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Article: A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Blacklist.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2003
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A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Blacklist. By Paul Buhle and David Wagner. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 275. $27.50.)
One of the effects of post-World War II "McCarthyism" (purges, blacklists, censorship, and self-censorship) was to make activists in the arts, sciences, professions, trade unions, and social protest movements "unpersons," invisible men and women whose work was condemned as "party-line" and excised from the American mainstream.
In their insightful and exciting study, Paul Buhle, a distinguished scholar of both American Marxism and the broad American Left, and ...