Dalton Trumbo Blacklisted Hollywood Radical

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Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Under the Western Skies; 2. Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles; 3. Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds; 4. Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun; 5. From B Films to A Films; 6. Money, Politics, and War; 7. Into the Communist Party; 8. Trumbo's Antifascist Persuasion; 9. The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities; 10. Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted; 11. The Time of the Toad; 12. Incarceration and Drift; 13. Oh, Oh, Mexico; 14. Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers.;James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present thier extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long camp. Front cover Copyright Contents Introduction 1. Under the Western Skies 2. Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles 3. Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds 4. Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun 5. From B Films to A Films 6. Money, Politics, and War 7. Into the Communist Party 8. Trumbo's Antifascist Persuasion 9. The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities 10. Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted 11. The Time of the Toad 12. Incarceration and Drift 13. Oh, Oh, Mexico 14. Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers. 15. From the Communist Party to the New Left16. Blacklist and Black-Market Politics 17. Using and Revealing Robert Rich 18. Spartacus 19. Exodus and the Credit Announcements 20. Back on the Screen 21. Hawaii and The Sandpiper 22. The Fixer and the Laurel Award 23. Johnny Got His Gun -- The Movie: Preproduction 24. Johnny Got His Gun -- The Movie: Principal Photography and Editing 25. Johnny Got His Gun -- The Movie: Distribution and Exhibition 26. The Final Years 27. Postmortem Acknowledgments Appendix Chronology Notes Index.