Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America by Alan Ackerman

Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

Alan Ackerman

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In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, including 'and' and 'the.' Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment ...

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