num_pages: 528
description: With a New Afterword by the Author"An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense." —Studs TerkelHalf a century later, the investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House Committee on Un-American Activities still haunts the public conscience. Naming Names, reissued here with a new afterword by the author, is the definitive account of the hearings, a National Book Award winner widely hailed as a classic. Victor S. Navasky adroitly dissects the motivations for the investigation and offers a poignant analysis of its consequences. Focusing on the movie-studio workers who avoided blacklists only by naming names at the hearings, he explores the terrifying dilemmas of those who informed and the tragedies of those who were informed on. Drawing on interviews with more than 150 people called to testify—among them Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller—Naming Names presents a compelling portrait of how the blacklists operated with such chilling efficiency.
language: English
title: Naming Names
titlecomplete: Naming Names
genres: History, Film, American History, Audiobook, Pop Culture, Journalism, American, Nonfiction, Political Science, Politics
ratings_count: 245
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award
category: General Nonfiction (Paperback), awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: General Nonfiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Hill and Wang