Red Star Over Hollywood (by Ronald and Allis Radosh)

RED STAR OVER HOLLYWOOD by Ronald and Allis Radosh (unabridged) is presented by Blackstone Audio and comes with what is perhaps the best audiobook app available (see FEATURES, below).

Hollywoods Red Scare has been consistently represented as a nightmare of paranoia that victimized political innocents. But Ronald and Allis Radosh reveal the back story behind this myth, taking us inside the discussion groups that Communist Party members formed, the unions they tried to take over, and the studios they aimed to influence. They show that many of the screenwriters who later became part of the Hollywood Ten in fact succeeded in using film as propaganda for the Soviet cause. When their CP allies abandoned them to face the HUAC investigations alone, they were left questioning their own loyalties.

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RATING: Suitable for adults interested in Hollywood history and 20th century American politics.

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"Ronald and Allis Radosh give us a sobering, straightforward, scrupulously researched account of the Communist Partys actual goal." (Tom Wolfe)