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  1. Just words
    Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America
    Author: Ackerman, Alan L.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300171808; 0300171803
    Subjects: Talkshow; Redefreiheit; Prozess
    Other subjects: Hellman, Lillian (1905-1984); McCarthy, Mary (1912-1989); Cavett, Dick (1939-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 361 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Just Words
    Lillian Hellman, Mary Mccarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
    Author: Ackerman, Alan L.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300171808
    Subjects: Talkshow; Redefreiheit; Prozess
    Other subjects: Hellman, Lillian (1905-1984); McCarthy, Mary (1912-1989); Cavett, Dick (1939-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
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  3. Just Words
    Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
    Author: Ackerman, Alan
    Published: [2011]
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment... more

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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300171808
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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)