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Sadanlaur Publications, Published 1993. Paperback, 350 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition.
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In very good condition. Glossy black laminated wraps show mild shelf wear on both covers, with bumping and creasing to corners, light rubbing along bottom edges, and a few fine surface scratches to the laminate. Binding tight. Otherwise unmarked. Polonsky wrote for CBS while blacklisted, submitting scripts through Jeremy Daniel, a friend who agreed to front them and who is credited on the title page of all but three. Producer Charles W. Russell had first hired the blacklisted trio of Walter Bernstein, Arnold Manoff and Polonsky onto Danger, then carried them to You Are There, where remote historical subjects gave cover for the writers' own predicament: Galileo before the Inquisition, Savonarola, Milton under censorship, each anchored by Walter Cronkite reporting as though from the scene. Schultheiss contributes a substantial introduction, A Season of Fear, and appendices reconstructing the front attributions for both series from Russell's annotated script lists and from interviews with Polonsky, now held in the Abraham Polonsky Collection at California State University, Northridge. Contents: Introduction; Cortes Conquers Mexico; The Crisis of Galileo; The Fate of Nathan Hale; The Secret of Sigmund Freud; The Recognition of Michelangelo; The Vindication of Savonarola; Mallory's Tragedy on Mt. Everest; The Emergence of Jazz; The Torment of Beethoven; The Tragedy of John Milton.