Naming Names

Name: Naming Names
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Victor S. Navasky
ISBN: 9781515933441

Author: Victor S. Navasky

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 19 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/27/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Us History, Modern History

Synopsis

Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores the events behind the hit film Trumbo.

Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller—award-winning author Victor S. Navasky reveals how and why the blacklists were so effective and delves into the tragic and far-reaching consequences of Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts.

A compassionate, insightful, and even-handed examination of one of our country's darkest hours, Naming Names is at once a morality play and a fascinating window onto a searing moment in American cultural and political history.

About Victor S. Navasky

Victor S. Navasky is the author of Naming Names, which won the National Book Award, and Kennedy Justice, a National Book Award finalist. For many years the editor of the Nation, and then its publisher, Navasky has taught at a number of colleges and universities including Princeton University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he currently chairs the Columbia Journalism Review. He has contributed articles and reviews to numerous magazines and journals of opinion, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a George Polk Award. Navasky is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Seattle on March 29, 2016

This demanding, fascinating, troubling work about Hollywood's reaction to McCarthyism makes me wish I could take a course in the book and discuss it with a group of people chapter by chapter. I quarreled with the author throughout the read, but he answered all my objections to his central theses exc......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 22, 2015

The first edition appeared in the early 1980's, but Navasky has updated this version to post 2001. This is an exhaustively researched history and analysis of the Hollywood "show" hearings of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee of the late 1940's and 1950's. His exploration was timely as most o......more

Goodreads review by Fred on February 08, 2018

I think the reviewer was right that said that this is not a good first book to read on the period. For my part, I previously read The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60 and although I liked that book, I felt it had a somewhat biased view and wanted a different perspect......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on August 13, 2008

One of the best books I've read on the Hollywood blacklist, although not necessarily the best place to start on the subject. Navasky explores the moral and ethical decisions made by those who testified against their friends and those whose chose not to.......more

Goodreads review by ALLEN on September 25, 2018

This 1980 book is now part of the "classic" literature about the ethics of witnessing during the McCarthy Era. Victor Navasky did such a good job that it is still read, and will continue to be read. A revised edition ca. 2003 brings a new afterword by the author. No survey of that shameful time in A......more