Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story

"In this compelling portrait of a unique family and a peculiarly American tragedy, Patricia Bosworth has brought to life an entire era: Roosevelt's New Deal, the triumphant Left, the victory of World War II, and then the fall of liberalism and the dawn of the Cold War. The political turmoil that ensued created an environment of anticommunist hysteria that ruined many lives full of promise. Among them was that of Bosworth's father, Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, a heroic California lawyer of the thirties and forties, a Truman adviser, and a crusader against the Hollywood blacklist until he himself became its victim"--Back cover