Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist

by Julia Bricklin

Book Overview

In 1950, facing artistic and legal persecution by Senator Joe McCarthy because of her inclusion on Louis Budenz's list of four hundred concealed communists, single mother Hannah Weinstein fled to Europe. There, she built a television studio and established her own production company, Sapphire Films, then surreptitiously hired scores of such blacklisted writers as Waldo Salt, Ian McLellan Hunter, Adrian Scott, and Ring Lardner Jr., and "Trojan-horsed"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493061879
• ISBN13: 9781493061877
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"