Just words : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America /
In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legiti...
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| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011. |
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