Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1989). First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear, one-time owner's name on front endpaper; jacket slightly wrinkled at top of rear panel]. (B&W photographs0 The first book about the Hollywood Ten -- the group of filmmakers who refused to answer HUAC's questions about their political affiliations, and were subsequently sent to prison and blacklisted -- to "focus attention where it belongs -- not on the politics of the Ten but on their work: their short stories, novels, plays, criticism, poems, memoirs, and, of course, films." The Ten: Samuel Ornitz, Lester Cole, John Howard Lawson, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie, Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., and Dalton Trumbo. Includes chronologies, bibliographies and filmographies for all. .