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- W2405631143 abstract "Dashiell Hammett’s life, in its discontinuities and contradictions, seems to embody the uneasy pluralism of American society.1 Born into a Southern Catholic family, he worked for some years as an investigator for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which often functioned as the private police of America’s mineowners.2 Both world wars found him willing to defend America, but in the 1950s he appeared in court, and before Senator McCarthy’s Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, as a known Communist sympathiser. The fiction on which his reputation rests was written within the space of twelve years. Hammett wrote no definitive account of his political and social beliefs. The challenge to his radicalism, the need to define and to defend, came quite late in life, and after the age of thirty-nine Hammett found it difficult to write anything. The opinions of these later years survive mainly in remarks recalled by Hammett’s long-standing friend and protector, Lillian Hellman, such as his assertion the night before he went to jail for refusing to reveal the names of contributors to the bail-bond fund of the Civil Rights Congress, ‘I hate this damn kind of talk, but maybe I better tell you that if it were more than jail, if it were my life, I would give it for what I think democracy is and I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is.’3" @default.
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- W2405631143 date "1988-01-01" @default.
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- W2405631143 title "Radical Anger: Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest" @default.
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