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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