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This title uses the dramatic life stories of different women to reflect on America's long-running inability to forge a shared public discourse. Ackerman situates the Hellman-McCarthy case in the history of failed American dialogues from the late 1920s to the present.
Television talk showsTrials, litigationPolitics and literatureDick Cavett show (Television program)New YorkFreedom of speechTrials (Libel)Libel and slanderHistoryHellman, lillian, 1905-1984Mccarthy, mary, 1912-1989Television broadcasting, united states