In an immensely alive and pointed memoir by a writer who was himself blacklisted during what Lillian Hellman so aptly called scoundrel time, Bernstein recounts his passage from idealist to scapegoat. Chronicling his writing careers in Hollywood and then television, Bernstein tells of the blacklisting for communism which brought ostracism, FBI surveillance, and a search for fronts to take credit for his work. of photos.