book
Naming Names
Navasky, Victor S. Naming Names. New York: Viking Press, 1980.
Why this matters here
Victor Navasky’s Naming Names documents the 1947 Hollywood HUAC hearings, the Hollywood Ten’s refusal and contempt convictions, and the blacklist as a system that sorted people by willingness to perform loyalty and name associates under threat. When Authority Is Misread cites that history when questions that sound informational function as allegiance tests. Navasky’s study establishes the hearings and blacklist machinery; the book asks when conversation stops being inquiry and becomes compelled affiliation performance.
