The Un-Americans

"It has been a long time since I found a book so convincing. "The Un-Americans "is a truly original interpretation of the blacklist, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the 1950s as the era that established the functioning of both citizenship (in the political sphere) and mass entertainment (in the cultural sphere) as 'the staging and enforcement of a normative style of American seriousness.' It is a model combination of history, interpretation, and theory."--Sharon Marcus, Columbia University