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Used. Good condition. Tight binding; clean and complete pages. 423 pp Two Roads UK Trade paperback. First thus. A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist. Dalton TRUMBO was the central figure if the infamous “Hollywood Ten,” the screenwriters who, before the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for their associations with the Communist Party. Due to their refusal to cooperate during the investigation, TRUMBO and his fellow screenwriters were declared in contempt with Congress and were ultimately blacklisted from Hollywood and some were even jailed. Although TRUMBO was one of several hundred writers, directors, producers and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he won an Oscar under the pseudonym Robert Rich for The Brave One in 1956 and was the first to see his name on the big screen again in 1960 with Exodus, one of the year’s biggest movies. All his life, TRUMBO was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to his time in Los Angeles, where he organised a bakery strike and was even a bootlegger, and his time as an author when he wrote the powerful pacifist novel Johnny Got His Gun, to his heyday as a top-paid (and frequently broke) Hollywood screenwriter- where his credits include Roman Holiday, Spartacus, Papillon, Lonely Are The Brave, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Brave One, and Kitty Foyle - his life rivalled anything he created. Written with Dalton Trumbo’s full cooperation, at a moment when he himself did not know how much time he had left, TRUMBO is a candid tale of a colourful figure who’s was at the epicentre of a tumultuos period in recent American history.