High Noon (1952), now celebrating its 65th anniversary, was produced during the high tide of McCarthyism and the Korean War, and…

Many writers adopt a public persona. Hemingway’s was that of a macho sportsman. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s was that of a…

Sixty-five years ago last week, Alger Hiss—the protégé of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a rising star in the State Department, and…

Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical By Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo.(University of Kentucky Press, 640 pages, $36) One of the…