![]() ![]() ![]() For good measure, as any writer delving into history should do, Ryskind places the events and individuals he’s writing about within the proper context of their time. This spin has come to be widely accepted as actual history.Īllan Ryskind, author of Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters, Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler, will have none of it, however. The longtime Human Events editor (and son of Morrie Ryskind, a screenwriter with various Marx Brothers films to his credit) offers a compelling, comprehensive tome that takes a fair-and as a result, damning-look at mountains of evidence regarding what the Hollywood Ten and other communists in the movie business actually did and advocated. For nearly seven decades, leftists in the entertainment industry have peddled the idea that blacklisted screenwriters–especially the “Hollywood Ten”-were innocent, naïve standard bearers for First Amendment rights who unjustly suffered for their political beliefs at the hands of fascists in Congress and the movie business amidst a period of irrational anti-Red hysteria. That’s been the case with the blacklist of assorted industry communists during the early years of the Cold War. ![]() Perhaps we shouldn’t be all that surprised then when Hollywood gets its own history wrong. ![]() Hollywood is not exactly known for accuracy when portraying historical figures and events in the movies. ![]()
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