Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America by Ackerman, Alan

Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300191967)

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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America by Ackerman, Alan

Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

$55.00
Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America by Ackerman, Alan

Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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Focusing on Lillian Hellman's infamous 1980 libel suit against Mary McCarthy for her scornful comments on The Dick Cavett Show, this book explores the roles of truth and lying in American public life and considers why civil discourse seems beyond o

Author: Alan Ackerman
ISBN-10: 0300191960
ISBN-13: 9780300191967
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2013
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
By Alan Ackerman
By Alan Ackerman
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Alan Ackerman is professor of English, University of Toronto. His books include Seeing Things, from Shakespeare to Pixar and The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage, and he is editor of the journal Modern Drama.

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