Managing Group Process or Words at War

Managing Group Process

Author: Marvin R Gottlieb

Aimed at front-line and senior managers faced with ongoing reorganization and an increasingly reluctant workforce, this book examines what it takes to facilitate problem solving, decision-making, and workforce retention and commitment.

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Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist

Author: Howard Blu

"Words at War describes how seventeen radio dramatists and their actors fought a war of words against fascism abroad and injustice at home. Beginning in the late 1930s, the commercial networks, private agencies, and the government cooperated with radio dramatists to produce plays to alert Americans to the Nazi threat. During World War II, they also used radio to stimulate morale and show how Americans could support the fight against fascism, even if it meant just having a "victory garden."" "Simultaneously as they worked on the war effort, many radio writers and actors advanced a progressive agenda to fight the enemy within: racism, poverty, and other social ills. When the war ended, many of these people paid for their idealism by suffering blacklisting. Veterans' groups, the FBI, right-wing politicians, and other reactionaries mounted an assault on them to drive them out of their professions. Words at War discusses that partly successful effort and the response of the radio personalities involved." "Based largely on his interviews with Norman Corwin, Arthur Miller, Pete Seeger, Arthur Laurents, Art Carney, and dozens of others associated with radio during its Golden Age, author Howard Blue discusses public reaction to these broadcasts and the issue of blacklisting. He recalls the radio shows that shone during this era: commercial drama series such as The Man Behind the Gun, network-sustained shows such as those of Norman Corwin, and government-produced programs such as the Uncle Sam series." Weaving together materials from FBI files and archives around the country, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National Archives, and a dozen university special collection libraries, this book tells how the nation used a unique broadcast genre in a time of national crisis. A fascinating study of the issues of censorship, scapegoating, and the government's role in disseminating propaganda, it depicts a conflict between art and politics that is as

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	The Writers	17
3	The Actors	51
4	On the Eve of World War II: Expressing Antifascism through Allegory	75
5	Corwin and the Office of Facts and Figures	99
6	The Office of War Information and Other Government Agencies	123
7	Private Agencies	139
8	Sponsored Radio Dramas	159
9	Presenting the U.S. Armed Forces	181
10	The Enemy	203
11	America's Allies: The British	223
12	America's Allies: The Soviets	239
13	The Home Front	249
14	Fighting Intolerance	271
15	Women	295
16	The War against the Jews	309
17	Looking toward the Postwar Era	319
18	The War Ends	329
19	The Postwar Era: A Change of Enemies	341
20	Conclusion	375
	Collections Consulted	385
	Selected Bibliography	387
	Index	391
	About the Author	407