Home > History & Humanities > History > Regional & national history > Australasian & pacific history > Mother Goose Drank Scotch: An American Journey: Robert Rossen in the weeds of family and movies and Hollywood Marxism
2%
Mother Goose Drank Scotch: An American Journey: Robert Rossen in the weeds of family and movies and Hollywood Marxism

Mother Goose Drank Scotch: An American Journey: Robert Rossen in the weeds of family and movies and Hollywood Marxism

          
5
4
3
2
1

Out of Stock


Premium quality
Premium quality
Bookswagon upholds the quality by delivering untarnished books. Quality, services and satisfaction are everything for us!
Easy Return
Easy return
Not satisfied with this product! Keep it in original condition and packaging to avail easy return policy.
Certified product
Certified product
First impression is the last impression! Address the book’s certification page, ISBN, publisher’s name, copyright page and print quality.
Secure Checkout
Secure checkout
Security at its finest! Login, browse, purchase and pay, every step is safe and secured.
Money back guarantee
Money-back guarantee:
It’s all about customers! For any kind of bad experience with the product, get your actual amount back after returning the product.
On time delivery
On-time delivery
At your doorstep on time! Get this book delivered without any delay.
Notify me when this book is in stock
Add to Wishlist

About the Book

MOTHER GOOSE DRANK SCOTCH: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, is the biography of ROBERT ROSSEN, the son of Jewish immigrants, who escaped mean-street poverty to become one of 20th Century America's foremost film makers, screenwriter of some of the most noteworthy thirties' films of social criticism, later garnering world acclaim directing and/or scripting such iconic works as ALL THE KING'S MEN, THE HUSTLER, and BODY AND SOUL. Written as a memoir by his daughter, actress/author CAROL EVE ROSSEN, MOTHER GOOSE explores Mr. Rossen's youth, his films, his Depression-era activism in Hollywood's Communist Party, the de facto voice for the disenfranchised and the center of anti-Fascist resistance, as well as his ultimate disillusionment with the Party and its doctrinaire defense of Stalin's brutality - leftist peers excoriating his Oscar winning ALL THE KING'S MEN as a corruption of the Party line. Named as one of the Hollywood 19 "unfriendly witnesses" by the House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC] in 1947, Rossen becomes a victim of the blacklist at the height of his career, his studio contracts terminated and passport revoked. Caught between the Right - which questioned his patriotism, and the Left - which questioned his idealism, Rossen becomes a cooperating witness in 1953, naming names HUAC already knew, his passport and the right to work the quid pro quo. The Rossen family decamps to Europe, aliens in limbo, following film opportunities in Rome, Madrid, Paris and London, Rossen to return to New York and professional acclaim in the 60s. Only to die soon thereafter at age 57. Artfully conceived in a multiplicity of prose treatments, CAROL EVE ROSSEN, she a child of Hollywood's Red Scare holocaust and the eldest of Rossen's three children, questions, pursues, and discovers the jumbled anatomy of the family's tour of history, GOOSE both memoir as well as biography, a remembrance of love, of fear and chaos, of surviving the stigma attached to her [in]famous father - of surviving the tumultuous events that changed the face of America. With grace, humour, and above all loyalty to family, Ms. Rossen perseveres, and despite personal and professional retribution, becomes a most formidable actress, with star turns in film [THE STEPFORD WIVES], television [over 100 appearances in many of the leading programs of the '60s] and Broadway [THE GLASS MENAGERIE] some of which was recounted in her first work of non-fiction, COUNTERPUNCH [Dutton, 1988.] Meticulously researched, reaching back two generations to the Jewish Pale of Czarist Russia, Ms. Rossen interviewed many intimates and colleagues of her father, including Ring Lardner, Jr., Budd Schulberg, Richard Condon, Max Youngstein, Irene Diamond, Norman Podhoretz, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott and Robert Redford, Carol's junior high school classmate and lifelong friend, to compose an indelible portrait of a family that somehow stays together despite years of constraint and exclusion from community.


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781731290694
  • Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 462
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1731290691
  • Publisher Date: 10 May 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 670 gr


Similar Products

How would you rate your experience shopping for books on Bookswagon?

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS           
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Mother Goose Drank Scotch: An American Journey: Robert Rossen in the weeds of family and movies and Hollywood Marxism
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US -
Mother Goose Drank Scotch: An American Journey: Robert Rossen in the weeds of family and movies and Hollywood Marxism
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Mother Goose Drank Scotch: An American Journey: Robert Rossen in the weeds of family and movies and Hollywood Marxism

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book
    Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!