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

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.

General

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
LSN:	0-300-19196-0
Barcode:	9780300191967

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