[HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST]. GORDON, BERNARD. Hollywood Exile or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist: A Memoir by Bernard Gordon. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000. First Edition - Paperback. Signed and inscribed by the author Bernard Gordon at the title page: For Muriel, Best wishes from an expert about the blacklist. Bernard Gordon”. Illustrated, 303 pages. Near fine copy with some minor fading to the spine in printed wrappers. Bernard Gordon (1918 - 2007), American writer and producer, was prevented for much of his 27 year career from taking any screen credit by the entertainment industry’s Hollywood Blacklist which was put into effect in the mid-20th century in the United States during the early years of the Cold War. Part of the practice of the blacklist was to deny employment to entertainment industry professionals believed to be or to have been members or sympathizers of the Communist party. This included actors, screenwriters, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals who were barred from work by the studios. The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The blacklist lasted until 1960 when Dalton Trumbo, a Communist party member from 1943 to 1948 and member of the Hollywood Ten, was credited as the screenwriter of the film Exodus and publicly acknowledged for writing the screenplay for Spartacus. Many of those blacklisted, however, were still barred from work in their professions for years afterward. Mr. Gordon’s book probes the motives and actions of all the players involved in a strike at the major Hollywood studios in 1946 and how his career was influenced - for better and for worse in the years that followed.