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Fists upon a Star: A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism

By Florence Bean James, Jean Freeman
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By Florence Bean James, Jean Freeman

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Fists Upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyism led her to flee to Canada.


The memoir is as epic as America itself. Born in 1892 in the frontier society of Idaho, she became a suffragette in New York City, was the first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, and along with her husband, Burton, founded the Negro Repertory Theater and the nationally recognized Seattle Repertory Playhouse. With star ap...

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