You gotta stand up : the life and high times of John Henry Faulk / / by Chris Drake

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808693003321
• Autore: Drake Chris
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-19140-3; 9786612191404; 1-4438-0767-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.45092; 818.5409
• Soggetti: Authors, American - 20th century; Blacklisting of authors - United States - History - 20th century; Blacklisting of entertainers - United States - History - 20th century; Entertainers - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; SOURCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: If it's true that we're known by the company we keep, then Texas humorist, First Amendment Advocate, "Hee Haw's homespun philosopher, and 1950's media blacklist buster, John Henry Faulk's character was first quality. His story intersects some of America's best and brightest: Eugene Victor Debs, the "Texas Triumvirate," Edward R. Murrow, Mark Goodson, Louis Nizer, Myrna Loy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Papp, and host of others. Consciously risking a lucrative television career, he seized "the buz...