Naming Names With a New Afterword by the Author

by Navasky, Victor S.

• ISBN13: 9780809001835
• ISBN10: 0809001837
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-30
• Publisher: Hill and Wang

Summary

With a New Afterword by the Author "An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense." --Studs Terkel Half a century later, the investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House Committee on Un-American Activities still haunts the public conscience. Naming Names, reissued here with a new afterword by the author, is the definitive account of the hearings, a National Book Award winner widely hailed as a classic. Victor S. Navasky adroitly dissects the motivations for the investigation and offers a poignant analysis of its consequences. Focusing on the movie-studio workers who avoided blacklists only by naming names at the hearings, he explores the terrifying dilemmas of those who informed and the tragedies of those who were informed on. Drawing on interviews with more than 150 people called to testify--among them Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller--"Naming Names presents a compelling portrait of how theblacklists,operated with such chilling efficiency.

Author Biography

Victor S. Navasky, a graduate of Yale Law School, is publisher and editorial director of The Nation. The author of Kennedy Justice, he is Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword
A Note on Vocabulary
Introduction: The Informer as Patriot	p. 1
The Espionage Informer	p. 6
The Conspiracy Informer	p. 20
The Liberal Informer	p. 45
HUAC In Hollywood	p. 78
The Collaborators	p. 97
Guilty Bystanders	p. 144
Elia Kazan and the Case for Silence	p. 199
The Reasons Why	p. 223
The Reasons Considered	p. 279
Degradation Ceremonies	p. 314
The Intended Victim	p. 340
The Community as Victim	p. 347
The Informer as Victim	p. 371
The Question of Forgiveness	p. 402
The Question of Obedience	p. 407
The Question of Candor	p. 417
Afterword	p. 429
Afterword to the Third Edition	p. 435
Notes on Sources	p. 441
Acknowledgments	p. 465
Index	p. 469
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