The Time of the Toad by Trumbo-Hollywood 10 & Red Scare

The Time of the Toad:

A Study of Inquisition in America

by Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo's life is perhaps more exciting than any of the films he wrote. He was a successful screenwriter in the 1940s, one of the highest paid in Hollywood. He has been compared to Wilde and Shaw in his capacity as a witty man of letters. He wrote magnificent letters (collected in Additional Dialogue ) as well as one of the most stirring antiwar novels ever written, Johnny Got His Gun , a story written from the point of view of a quadriplegic. Then, as the House Un-American Activities Committee searched for Communists in Hollywood, he joined the ranks of the infamous Hollywood Ten.

Trumbo was forced into exile but this did not stop the spunky writer from working under a multitude of pseudonyms. He won Hollywood's highest honors while using the names of others. Finally, after 13 years in limbo and a change in the climate of the country, Trumbo returned a hero. The world finally acknowledged his previously uncredited pictures and he served as a director for the film version of his controversial masterpiece, Johnny Got His Gun .

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This edition of “Time of the Toad” (pub. By Perrenial Library in 1972) includes “The Devil in the Book”, “Honor Bright and all that Jazz”, two related long essays.  The book is in good to very good condition, with the exception of a punch hole through the first four or five pages and the cover.  The book will be shipped in a protective sleeve, via media mail, with no insurance.

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