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Dangerous Dossiers
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This book discusses the FBI's program of targeting authors as possibly subversive to the USA-- authors such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, EB White (Charlotte's Web) and others. It also discusses how the FBI tried pressuring the American Library Assn into maintaining reading lists of its patrons but the Assn refused. Some universities do this... »
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The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
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In this insightful survey of Hollywood films between the World
Wars, the author shows that the increasing proportion of
revenue from foreign markets dictated not only
greater attention to their political, social, and
religious sensitivities, but also influenced the
very form of the medium, e.g., a tendency
toward "action pictures" at the expense o... »
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Dangerous Dossiers
Herbert Mitgang's courageous book is still very topical.
His exposure of FBI practices of secretly policing authors and their writings shows how int... »
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