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Summary: The Only Honest Memoir You'll Ever Find About The Ten
Review: This book is a much needed contribution to the historical record, to undo all the mindless junk that's been said for years about what the Hollywood Ten was all about. Dmytryk's memoir is candid, honest and gets to what the heart of the matter was all about. And because he was the only one of the Ten who recognized that, he is treated now as a pariah by those who seem to think that fealty to the American Communist Party is more noble than "naming names", even when in Dmytryk's case it forced him into prison in the name of beliefs he no longer held.Probably the best memoir of one man's break from American communism since Whittaker Chambers's masterpiece "Witness."
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Summary: The Only Honest Memoir You'll Ever Find About The Ten
Review: This book is a much needed contribution to the historical record, to undo all the mindless junk that's been said for years about what the Hollywood Ten was all about. Dmytryk's memoir is candid, honest and gets to what the heart of the matter was all about. And because he was the only one of the Ten who recognized that, he is treated now as a pariah by those who seem to think that fealty to the American Communist Party is more noble than "naming names", even when in Dmytryk's case it forced him into prison in the name of beliefs he no longer held. Probably the best memoir of one man's break from American communism since Whittaker Chambers's masterpiece "Witness."
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