We're All In It [*SIGNED*]

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good in Good dj. 1948. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [book shows wear at both ends of spine, light shelfwear to bottom edge, bumped at lower rear corner; jacket heavily edgeworn, with a couple of closed edge-tears, some wrinkling/creasing, small bits of paper loss at corners of rear panel]. SIGNED (no inscription) by the author on the front endpaper. Just a couple of years after leaving his post as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to become the successor to Will Hays as the head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (the name of which he immediately changed to the Motion Picture Association of America), Johnston penned this early Cold War polemic, a "challenge to Americans to take up their rightful leadership in the complex world of today." He served as head of the MPAA for nearly two decades (until his death in 1963), but what was probably his most notable achievement (not in a good way) came very near the beginning of his term, when he collaborated with the movie studio moguls in the creation of the Hollywood blacklist. Interestingly, however, in this book he deals not at all -- even glancingly -- with his work in connection with the MPAA, although he devotes quite a bit of space to discussing Joseph Stalin and the menace of Communist Russia. Signed by Author .