The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten

From: Journalism History | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Lewis, Jon | Copyright information

Home, Gerald. The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 360pp. $24.95.

When asked what he thought about the so-called Hollywood Ten, the uncooperative, "unfriendly" witnesses at the House Unamerican Activities Committee hearings in the fall of 1947, director Billy Wilder quipped that only two or three of them had any talent while the rest were "just unfriendly." That statement revealed less about hi...

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