Fists Upon a Star: A Memoir of Love, Theatre, and Escape from McCarthyism

by Florence James and Florence Bean James

Book Overview

Fists Upon a Star is the hard-hitting memoir of Florence James, a pioneering American theatre director, whose devastating experience with McCarthyism led her to flee to Canada. The memoir is as epic as America itself. Born in 1892 in the frontier society of Idaho, she became a suffragette in New York City, was the first to put Jimmy Cagney on stage, and along with her husband, Burton, founded the Negro Repertory Theater and the nationally recognized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889774072
• ISBN13: 9780889774070
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"