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WHITEWASHING THE BLACKLIST

By Holzer, Henry
Publication: The American Enterprise
Date: Thursday, September 1 2005

WHITEWASHING THE BLACKLIST Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left By Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh Encounter Books, 292 pages, $25.95

"How and why," ask the authors of Red Star Over Hollywood, did so many film artists in the first half of the twentieth century

"become enchanted not only with the Left, but with its totalitarian expression, the American Communist Party?" "What were their aims and objectives, and how did they set about achieving them?" To answer these questions, Ronald and Allis Radosh present a detailed mosaic of communism in Hollywood before, during, and after World War II.

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Some elements of the communist seduction of Western citizens are well known: Moscow's creation of the revolution-exporting Comintern in 1919; the duplicitous 1935-1939 "common front"; 1939's gear-shifting Hitler-Stalin Pact; the "Cold War" struggles-all of which the authors have researched meticulously and related directly to their study of Hollywood's Communists.

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