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The Hollywood Writers' Wars

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It's always amazed me how Hollywood could treat its writers with such contempt. Without the writers, how could anything have been made? And then, when the anti-communist scare came along, the writers were the first ones who Hollywood turfed overboard. I wanted to understand better how that happened, and found the answers in this book. But note: this isn't a breezy readable account that you can knock off in an afternoon sitting by the fire. It's a serious account, dealt with seriously and with the reverence it deserves. It's such an important work that when the original author died before it was finished, her mother took over the project and saw it to its worthy conclusion, and I'm so glad she did. -- Martin Turnbull, the author of the "Garden of Allah" series. The Garden on Sunset

I was lucky to find a hard cover copy of this book. Read it and find out the real history of people like Walt Disney, Irving Thallburg, and why the Academy Awards are such a joke! Found this book by accident and glare I did. These men and women were brave and stood up against the movie machines and the newspapers it controlled.