Scoundrel Time

by Lillian Hellman

ISBN: 0316355151
ISBN-13: 9780316355155
Format: Hardcover

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This third volume of the playwright's memoirs focuses on her experiences testifying before Congress during the Communist-hunting days of the 1950s, when she and many of her colleagues were called on to expose their friends as political subversives. This edition includes an introduction by Garry Wills.

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Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Published date: 1976

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The distinguished playwright and memoirist recounts the intrusion of congressional and other witch-hunters, Red-baiters, and ideologues into her and Dashiell Hammett's lives in the 1950s and the losses and discomforts suffered.

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