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N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Just wordsLillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America /
DA  - c2011.
CY  - New Haven, Conn. :
AU  - Ackerman, Alan L.
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete
CN  - KF228.H45
PB  - Yale University Press,
PP  - New Haven, Conn. :
PY  - c2011.
ID  - 438938
KW  - Trials (Libel)
KW  - Television talk shows
KW  - Libel and slander
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - Politics and literature
SN  - 9780300171808
TI  - Just wordsLillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America /
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