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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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.
Imprint | Yale University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | June 2011 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | June 2011 |
Authors | Alan Ackerman |
Dimensions | 212 x 146 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 256 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-300-16712-2 |
Barcode | 9780300167122 |
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LSN | 0-300-16712-1 |