Paul Buhle, Author Verso $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-85984-598-1
Following up on his Radical Hollywood, Buhle, who teaches at Brown University, delivers a rambling, factoid-driven account of the contributions American Jews have made to music, theater, film, radio, television and graphic arts. Among his subjects...
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Paul Buhle, Author, Patrick McGilligan, Joint Author St. Martin's Press $35 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-17046-2
Thirty-five interviews with victims of the Hollywood blacklist--a product of investigations into alleged Communist activities by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s and early '50s--make this an invaluable oral history,...
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Paul Buhle, Author, David Wagner, Joint Author . Univ. of Calif. $27.50 (275p) ISBN 978-0-520-22383-7
Called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1951, Polonsky was called a "very dangerous citizen" by Illinois congressman Harold Velde. Blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to inform on his political associates,...
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Paul Buhle, Author, David Wagner, Author, Dave Wagner, Joint Author . New Press $29.95 (460p) ISBN 978-1-56584-718-7
Hollywood and politics have always had a complicated relationship that changes decade by decade (seen as too liberal last year, Tinseltown is now being courted by Beltway bigwigs to produce patriotic entertainment), and this groundbreaking account...
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Paul Buhle and Sabrina Jones, For Beginners (Random, dist.), $14.99 trade paper (200p) ISBN 9781934389508
The incredibly farsighted and productive presidential career of Roosevelt is handled in smart, dramatic fashion in this long-overdue addition to Steerforth's impressive "For Beginners" line of introductions to concepts, thinkers, and historical...
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Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver. Alternative Comics, $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-68148-534-8
Buhle (Bohemians: A Graphic History) and Van Sciver (Saint Cole) explore the strange life of a much-mythologized American pioneer, Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman (1774–1845), whose travels took him from his Massachusetts home to New York, Pennsylvania,...
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Paul Buhle, Author, David Wagner, Author, Dave Wagner, Author . Palgrave $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4039-6144-0
This encyclopedic, riveting study of the Hollywood blacklist's impact follows the careers of targeted individuals to explore the blacklist's effects on the arts in America and Europe in the last half-century. As Buhle and Wagner (coauthors...
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Paul Buhle, Author, Dave Wagner, Author Palgrave MacMillan $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4039-6145-7
During the McCarthy years, some actors and directors spoke out against the country's oppressive political climate--and were blacklisted for it. In this collection of short, descriptive entries, Buhle and Wagner (Radical Hollywood) pay homage to the...
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Howard Zinn, Foreword by, Mike Konopacki, Author, Paul Buhle, Author . Metropolitan $30 (274p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7779-7
This “graphic adaptation” of Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire
is, on almost every level, a disappointment. Its basic concept seems to be a Cliff's Notes version of the original, implying that the comics
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Denis Kitchen, Author, Paul Buhle, Author, Harry Shearer, Introduction by Abrams Comicarts $40 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8109-7296-4
Though his tenure lasted less than two years at the publication, Harvey Kurtzman is the genius responsible for Mad magazine's design, cast of characters, and unique brand of irreverence. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Kitchen and Buhle
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Paul Buhle, Steve Max, and Dave Nance, illus. by Noah Van Sciver. Verso, $18.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-78663-687-4
This ragged polemic is worth reading mostly because of the dense and slightly grotesque art of Van Sciver (Johnny Appleseed). Published in conjunction with the Democratic Socialists of America, the book is both a biography of labor leader Eugene V....
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Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver. Fantagraphics, $19.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-6839-6044-7
Academic Buhle (Bohemians: A Graphic History) and indie cartoonist Van Sciver (Fante Bukowski) examine an American folk hero’s legacy in this graphic novel. A legend of frontier folklore, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman wandered through Indiana,...
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