Those Wonderful, Terrible Years: George Heller and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

by Rita Morley Harvey

This is the story of George Heller--the glamour boy of the trade union movement--and his actor colleagues Philip Loeb, Sam Jaffe, and Albert (Van) Dekker. It is also the story of the formation and growth of AFRA (the American Federation of Radio Artists) and its later incarnation AFTRA (the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). Always prominent in Rita Morley Harvey's account of what happened to the union, to its members, and to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809320231
• ISBN13: 9780809320233
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

mitchny

I am a member of AFTRA and I think this book surprised the heck out of me. I thought it might be a dry tellling of the union's history. But no, Ms. Harvey really knows how to tell an engaging tale out of the story of this entertainment union. It really is a page turner, with passages about the Black-listing era that were exciting, depressing and had real echoes and lessons for today. I know Ms. Harvey had access to all of AFTRAs' minutes, and this book reflects the inside story...which is sometimes shocking in its facts. This book is excellent.