"During World War II, Walter Bernstein was a correspondent for the U.S. Army magazine Yank; after the war, he joined the Communist Party. When Senator Joseph McCarthy began his notorious witch hunt for Communists in the late 1940s, Bernstein - a writer for film and television - found himself blacklisted. For a decade he would scrape a living together by selling scripts through fronts.".

"With the perspective and insight afforded by the passage of fifty years, the author vividly recalls an entertainment community torn between those who were willing, and those who refused, to denounce their friends, and he provides unforgettable glimpses of leading Hollywood figures such as Burt Lancaster, Elia Kazan, Bette Davis, and Zero Mostel."--BOOK JACKET.