Upton Sinclair Articles

Anthony Slide on Reynold Humphries' Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History: "The entire history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) is well recorded. The author explains the origins of the Blacklist, dating the story from Roosevelt's election in 1932 and the rise of what he describes as the Liberal-Communist Alliance. The Alliance quickly ended with the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the damage [...]

As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger's Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data — as collected by 1930 census takers — of more than 2,000 "U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures." (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.) The book, of course, doesn't offer any saucy insights into [...]

2008 USC Scripter Awards 2008 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner)   No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin (above), Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones, has won nearly every U.S. critics' awards this season. The Coens' adapted screenplay is also in the running for this year's Writers Guild award. Literary Achievement Award recipient Steven Zaillian happens to be [...]