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Blacklisted!: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment
By Larry Dane Brimner
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By Larry Dane Brimner
Hardcover edition
Publisher Boyds Mills Press Imprint Calkins Creek ISBN9781620916032
Awards and Honors <i>Kirkus</i> Best Books, Young Adult - 2018Blacklisted!: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment
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The Cold War, 1947: the US government investigated nineteen men from the film industry for suspected communist ties. The first ten to be questioned—known as the Hollywood Ten—were blacklisted for standing up for their First Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate. Author's note. Bibliography. Source notes. Index. Black-and-white photographs and reproductions.
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