The Tarnished Age
Richard Mayne, 3 September 1981
David O. Selznick’s Hollywood
by Ronald Haver.
Secker, 425 pp., £35, December 1980,0 436 19128 8 Show More
by Ronald Haver.
Secker, 425 pp., £35, December 1980,
My Early life
by Ronald Reagan and Richard Hubler.
Sidgwick, 316 pp., £7.95, April 1981,0 283 98771 5 Show More
by Ronald Reagan and Richard Hubler.
Sidgwick, 316 pp., £7.95, April 1981,
“... J. Parnell Thomas, later jailed, and Joseph McCarthy, together with such men as John E. Rankin and Richard M. Nixon, posed as crusaders, hounding writers, actors, directors, and ordinary citizens whose political opinions were their only crime. The ensuing black list infected Hollywood like dry rot. The whole affair now looks like a pestilence, collective ... ”