Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky audiobook

Naming Names

By Victor S. Navasky
Read by Eric Michael Summerer

Tantor Audio

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798212145602

  • ISBN: 9798212145626

Runtime: 19.78 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/History
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Winner of the National Book Award

Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores the events behind the hit film Trumbo.

Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller—award-winning author Victor S. Navasky reveals how and why the blacklists were so effective and delves into the tragic and far-reaching consequences of Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts.

A compassionate, insightful, and even-handed examination of one of our country's darkest hours, Naming Names is at once a morality play and a fascinating window onto a searing moment in American cultural and political history.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Absolutely first-rate reporting.” Newsday
“A landmark book.” Village Voice
“The sort of book that ought to be required reading in the journalism classrooms of the nation.” New York Daily News
“Navasky has done a splendid job bringing this enormous mass of facts to coherence and meaning, judging its ethical import so rigorously and fairly.” Los Angeles Times Book Review
“An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense.” Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, historian, and broadcaster

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Reviews

Author

Author Bio: Victor S. Navasky

Author Bio: Victor S. Navasky

Victor S. Navasky (1932–2023) wrote the National Book Award winning book Naming Names, and Kennedy Justice, a National Book Award finalist. He had been an editor at the New York Times Magazine, and for many years he was the editor of The Nation and then its publisher. He taught at a number of colleges and universities, including Princeton University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he chaired the Columbia Journalism Review. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a George Polk Award and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/History
Runtime: 19.78
Audience: Adult
Language: English