Witch-Hunt in Hollywood: McCarthyism's War On Tinseltown

How political paranoia shaped cinema for a decade: "One of the most readable and damning accounts of that period." —The Guardian

This is the story of how the politicians took Tinseltown to task in the late 1940s and 1950s. As the Cold War with the Soviet Union began in earnest, the search for "Reds under the bed," later led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was felt most keenly in Hollywood, where the investigations were carried out under the full glare of the spotlights.

Painstakingly researche...