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I'd Hate Myself in the Morning : A Memoir, Paperback / softback Book

I'd Hate Myself in the Morning : A Memoir Paperback / softback

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Ring Lardner, Jr.'s memoir is a pilgrimage through the American century.

The son of an immensely popular and influential American writer, Lardner grew up swaddled in material and cultural privilege.

After a memorable visit to Moscow in 1934, he worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for Hollywood where he served a bizarre apprenticeship with David O.

Selznick, and won, at the age of 28, an Academy Award for the classic film, Woman of the Year, the first on-screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.

In "irresistibly readable" pages (New Yorker), peopled by a cast including Carole Lombard, Louis B.

Mayer, Dalton Trumbo, Marlene Dietrich, Otto Preminger, Darryl F.

Zanuck, Bertolt Brecht, Bert Lahr, Robert Altman, and Muhammad Ali, Lardner recalls the strange existence of a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of the studio system--an existence made stranger by membership in the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party.

Lardner retraces the path that led him to a memorable confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee and thence to Federal prison and life on the Hollywood blacklist. One of the lucky few who were able to resume their careers, Lardner won his second Oscar for the screenplay to M.A.S.H. in 1970.

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