A Time of Scoundrels
Lillian Hellman called her final memoir, covering her experience with the House Un-American Activities Committee, “Scoundrel Time”, because the HUAC era was one ruled by scoundrels led most famously by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and his henchmen, Roy Cohn and rising Republican darling Richard Nixon, then Representative from California. It is agai…
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