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Just Words - Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,538
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Just Words - Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Paperback): Alan Ackerman

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

Alan Ackerman

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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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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2013
First published: March 2013
Authors: Alan Ackerman
Dimensions: 203 x 130 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19196-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Freedom of information & freedom of speech
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LSN: 0-300-19196-0
Barcode: 9780300191967

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