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Just Words - Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Paperback)
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Just Words - Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Paperback)
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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.
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