Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary Mccarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
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- Synopsis
- In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.
- Copyright:
- 2011
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300171808
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780300167122
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/12/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Alan Ackerman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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