John Henry Faulk recounts the story of this harrowing time in Fear on Trial, the dramatic account of his six years on the "blacklist"an exile that began with the AWARE bulletin and ended with his vindication by a jury award of $3,500,000the largest libel award in U.S. history at that time. The heart of the book is the trial of Faulk's libel action against AWARE, in which attorney Louis Nizer relentlessly exposed the blacklist for what it wasa cynical disdain of elementary decency couched in the rhetoric of patriotism.
Many of the people involved in the Faulk case were and are famous: attorneys Nizer and Roy Cohn; Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood; Myrna Loy, Kim Hunter, Tony Randall, and Lee Grant; J. Frank Dobie; Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, and Mark Goodson. But the hero is Faulk himself, a man whoin the words of Studs Terkel"faced the bastards and beat them down."
John Henry Faulk recounts the story of this harrowing time in Fear on Trial, the dramatic account of his six years on the "blacklist"an exile that began with the AWARE bulletin and ended with his vindication by a jury award of $3,500,000the largest libel award in U.S. history at that time. The heart of the book is the trial of Faulk's libel action against AWARE, in which attorney Louis Nizer relentlessly exposed the blacklist for what it wasa cynical disdain of elementary decency couched in the rhetoric of patriotism.
Many of the people involved in the Faulk case were and are famous: attorneys Nizer and Roy Cohn; Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood; Myrna Loy, Kim Hunter, Tony Randall, and Lee Grant; J. Frank Dobie; Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, and Mark Goodson. But the hero is Faulk himself, a man whoin the words of Studs Terkel"faced the bastards and beat them down."
Fear on Trial
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780292724426 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 05/01/1983 |
Edition description: | REVISED |
Pages: | 278 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d) |