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Gerald Horne Returns to Toronto

Buy this book at Amazon.com!Gerald Horne returns to Toronto on Saturday, September 9th. Horne will present a different perspective on movies at a Different Booklist, 746 Bathurst St. as part of CKLN-FM 88.1’s Saturday Morning Live.

He will discuss his latest book, The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. Lawson was one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s. His credits include Blockade, Sahara, and Action in the North Atlantic.

Horne will discuss how McCarthyism and anti-Semitism ruined Lawson’s career. He will also discuss Lawson’s role in writing the screenplay for the first anti-apartheid film—Cry, the Beloved Country starring Sidney Poitier (of Bahamian extraction) and Canada Lee—and the progressive tradition in cinema that Lawson had represented.

Paul Buhle, author of Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America’s Favorite Movies, gives Horne’s latest work five stars. Says Buhle, “This is the best and most carefully written of the author’s many books and that is something in itself. This extraordinary treatment of one of the most interesting and controversial figures in Hollywood scene of the 1930s–40s demonstrates superior, indeed prodigious, scholarship. Decades of intense and committed research and writing have resulted in details that no one else has attempted to provide. This is an outstanding work that richly deserves our attention.”

Horne’s other books will also be available including Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith & Radical Black Sailors in the U.S. and Jamaica.

Horne, Moores Professor of history at the University of Houston, is author of Black and Brown: African-Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920, Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists, and Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois.

For more information contact Norman Richmond Norman@ckln.fm or call 416-979-5000 ext. 2372

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