| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist. By Howard Blue. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2002. xiv, 407 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8108-4413-3.)

Howard Blue is a "retired high school history teacher and a genealogist" (p. 407) who has written an overview of radio drama broadcast nationally in America during World War II, though he includes important information about broadcasts from 1938 on. One chapter touches on the careers of writers of radio drama whose politics proved suspect to vigilantes after 1945. Blue has interviewed a substantial number of the writers whose radio plays he discusses, and he clearly identifies with both the dramatic accomplishments of these writers and their "liberal" politics, which, according to Blue, was simply a commitment to promote "a progressive agenda to fight the enemy within: racism, poverty, and other social ills" (p. 3). He is at his impassioned best in describing the contents of wartime radio drama from the perspective of authors now in their nineties who remember their youthful wartime work with evident pleasure.

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