@article{438938,
      author = {Ackerman, Alan L.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438938},
      title = {Just words Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure  of public conversation in America / [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      abstract = {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 was not a legitimate conversation  on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This  intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of  Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about  tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and  restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be  said in public in America.},
      recid = {438938},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 361 p.) :},
      address = {New Haven, Conn. :},
      year = {2011},
}