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“Victor Navasky has written an important book about the McCarthy era.... What makes Mr. Navasky’s book so striking is its fairness.” — The New York Times Book Review “One of the indispensable books not only for understanding a critical era in Hollywood and in American political life, but for coming to grips with the whole subject of American films and the role they hare played in twentieth-century American culture” —American Film “The most intense moral argument that I, at least, hare seen brought to bear in a very long tim e.... Despite being ad dressed to the issues of the 1950s, it is current today. ... Victor Navasky has given us a portrait of human beings under pressure which, in its fullness, is as lifelike as any Hollywood has ever given us. Anyone who thinks political choices are necessarily simple should read Naming Names” —Mother Jones “What book could be more timely as Ronald Reagan comes into office than a book about the blacklistings that Ronald Reagan claimed, in his campaign, never existed?... Navasky comes just in time: We should be braced for many of the realities Reagan denies.” —Garry Wills “Naming Names Is the sort of book that ought to be required reading in the journalism classrooms of the nation as an example of how a writer can simultaneously convey a tough- minded point of view and be scrupulously fair.” —New York Daily News “A landmark book ... a stunning essay on the nature of understanding betrayal and the problem of forgiveness ... Naming Names is both a wrenching book and one that counts.” —Village Voice “Remarkable ... Navasky appears in these pages as a com passionate, if uncompromising, man ... thoughtful, instruc tive, and courageous.” —Newsweek “Offers a timely opportunity to examine how the domestic cold war determined the way we live now ... the issues that Navasky raises in this meticulously researched, scrupulously fair, brilliantly argued book are part of America’s unfinished business.” —Soho News PENGUIN BOOKS NAMING NAMES Victor S. Navasky, a graduate of the Yale Law School, is a journalist whose work has appeared in many forums, from the celebrated Monocle, which he helped to found, to The New York Times, where he worked as an editor. His previous book, Ken nedy Justice (1971), was nominated for the National Book Award. Since 1978 he has been the editor of The Nation. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children. N am ing Na mes V ictor S. N avasky PENGUIN BOOKS Penguin Bodes Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, U.S.A. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Limited, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4 Penguin Bodes (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1980 Published in Penguin Books 1981 Copyright © Victor S. Navasky, 1980 All rights reserved LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Navasky, Victor S. Naming names. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Moving-picture industry—United States. 2. Blacklisting of entertainers—United States. 3. Communism—United States—1917— I. Title. [PN1993.U6N4 1981] 791.43'09794'94 81-10519 ISBN 0 14 00.5942 3 AACR2 Printed in the United States of America by Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc., Dallas, Pennsylvania Set in CRT Times Roman Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser For Annie, Bruno, Miri, and Jenny
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