Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story
Simon & Schuster, 1997. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 416 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. A memoir by Patricia Bosworth, the noted biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, of her father. Bartley C. Crum was a prominent New York lawyer, a confidant of William Randolph Hearst and Wendel Wilkie, a liberal Republican, a Catholic Zionist, and an ardent defender of Communists during the early years of the Cold War. He was also an alcoholic depressive who killed himself in 1959. In her moving recollection Bosworth manages to portray both the charm that her father cast over her childhood as well as the frustrations that his death engendered. Condition: Very good / very good.
Keywords: Anti-Communism, Aptos Ranchos, Displaced Persons, FBI, Rita Hayworth, HUAC, Un-American Activities, Happy Kanta, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Hollywood Ten, Earl Warren, Wendell Wilkie, Blacklisting, Harry Bridges, Marshall Field, William Randol
ISBN: 9780684808093
[Book #60011]
Price: $35.00