Book Review - Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters – Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler

Review for “Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters – Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler” by Allan Ryskind, written for Conservative Book Club by bestselling author, Dr. Paul Kengor.

Few subjects have been as addled, muddled, and befuddled as the issue of communist penetration of the American film industry. Thanks to liberals and their control of Hollywood, media, and academia, the typical take is that Hollywood in the 1940s was graced by a bunch of good-hearted “progressives” looking to make nice movies and a better world until Joe McCarthy, “HUAC,” and a swarm of red-baiting vultures descended upon some really sweet people fighting for the New Deal, for civil rights, for better government, for “social justice,” and planting daisies all along Sunset Boulevard.……… Most of the 10 were extremely vigorous in their Party work on behalf of the Kremlin right up until late 1947 when they were called to testify before Congress. Some, such as Bessie, had literally traveled abroad and took up arms for the communists. The left could not have been more wrong about these guys, a scandalous historical error that predominates among liberal thinking to this day. The only one of the 10 ever to (as Ryskind put it) “renounce Communism completely” was Dmytryk.

Allan Ryskind has provided an important contribution to our knowledge and the truth about the Hollywood Ten and the seriousness of communist involvement during film the industry’s Golden Age. Now comes the real test of truth: Will the American left give a damn? - See more at: