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  * “Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun” is how the title appeared on the screen. In this rare instance, anything less would have been false modesty.

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  CONTENTS

  Cover

  Title Page

  Welcome

  Foreword: The Book and I

  One: The Lion in Winter

  Two: Colorado

  Three: The Davis Perfection Bakery

  Four: Beginning as a Writer

  Five: Cleo and Johnny

  Six: The War Years

  Seven: The Ten

  Eight: The Blacklist Begins

  Nine: Ten Months in Kentucky

  Ten: “Engaged in Selling”

  Eleven: Breaking the Blacklist

  Twelve: In the Material World

  Thirteen: Heroes and Villains?

  Photos

  Postscript

  A Note on Sources

  Books by Bruce Cook

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  Copyright

  Copyright

  Copyright © 1977 by Bruce Cook

  Foreword copyright © 2015 by John McNamara

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