“Truth made you a traitor,” wrote Lillian Hellman, “as it often does in a time of scoundrels. But there were very few who stood up to say so…”
The playwright told the story of her encounter with the federal government’s spell of anti-Communist paranoia in the late 1940s and early ‘50s in a brief memoir (her third) entitled Scoundrel Time.
Her quote about …
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