Pre-Owned Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in (Paperback 9780300191967) by Alan Ackerman

9780300191967. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 376. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 376 p. Contains: Halftones, black & white. 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.

Pre-Owned Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in (Paperback 9780300191967) by Alan Ackerman