Hollywood History-Blacklisting

This is a new book coming out about the era of the Second Red Scare. It’s worth the 16 minute listen.
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It turns out the history books have it all wrong. Richard Nixon was a hero. Dalton Trumbo was a snitch. And Elia Kazan, the most notorious name-namer of them all, was simply a courageous patriot who told the truth.

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The Hollywood 10 — they were either ex-Party or Party,” Ellroy tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Everybody knew what Stalin was doing. They just threw in their lot with Stalinists and with the enemies of America. … That’s who [these] people were

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Kazan, the director of On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire, who notoriously named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, was simply a man who did the right thing — unlike half the attendees at the 1999 Academy Awards who sat on their hands when Kazan finally received an honorary Oscar.

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He’s 100% dead on balls accurate about what students learn about this topic. I’m barely in academia and the narrative has been for a while that we (the U.S.) are just as much to blame for starting the Cold War as the Soviets, and the Second Red Scare was all hysteria and gay persecution.