Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broad

Words at WarWorld War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist\nAuthor(s): Howard Blue\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Scarecrow Press, United States\nImprint: Scarecrow Press\nISBN-13: 9780810844131, 978-0810844131\nSynopsis\nWords at War describes how 17 radio dramatists and their actors fought a war of words against fascism abroad and injustice at home. Beginning in the late 1930s, the commercial networks, private agencies, and the government cooperated with radio dramatists to produce plays to alert Americans to the Nazi threat. They also used radio to stimulate morale. They showed how Americans could support the fight against fascism even if it meant just having a \""victory garden.\"" \n\nSimultaneously as they worked on the war effort, many radio writers and actors advanced a progressive agenda to fight the enemy within: racism, poverty, and other social ills. When the war ended, many of these people paid for their idealism by suffering blacklisting. Veten