Just words : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America

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Just words : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America
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Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America
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Alan Ackerman
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eng
Summary
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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N$T
Dewey number
346.73/034
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
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English
LC call number
KF228.H45
LC item number
A25 2011eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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