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Scoundrel Time
Scoundrel Time
Author: Lillian Hellman
In 1952, Hellman joined the ranks of intellectuals and artists called before Congress to testify about political subversion. Terrified yet defiant, Hellman refused to incriminate herself or others, and managed to avoid trial. Nonetheless the experience brought devastating controversy and loss. First published in 1972, her retelling of the time f...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780316355155
ISBN-10: 0316355151
Publication Date: 4/1976
Pages: 155
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3.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Little Brown Co.
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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She writes with skill and grace, recreating the fear and suspicion of the McCarthy era. compelling and wonderful to read.
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Required Reading for the Art of Memoir & McCarthy Era, October 5, 2000
Reviewer: Debra Di Blasi "fiction writer and artist" (Kansas City, MO United States)

Lillian Hellman was one of the most gifted memoirists in the history of the English language. (I am an published author, produced screenwriter, and creative writing teacher, thus these words do not come as hyperbole.) It is not merely the historical, racial, and personal content of her autobiographical works that elevates them to classics, but her unique, and dexterous command of language. The fact that she was a brilliant playwright has much to do with her gift. There is some question regarding the "truth" in her memoirs, as there should be in any memoir, for memory is fickle and cannot be trusted--as Hellman herself admitted. Read them as works of art, as explorations of the nature of memory, as historical documents.
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***** This third volume in Lillian Hellman's memoirs brings to life that dark period in American history, the McCarthy era and the nefarious House Committee on Un-American Activities.


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