Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Under the Western Skies; 2. Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles; 3. Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds; 4. Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun; 5. From B Films to A Films; 6. Money, Politics, and War; 7. Into the Communist Party; 8. Trumbo's Antifascist Persuasion; 9. The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities; 10. Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted; 11. The Time of the Toad; 12. Incarceration and Drift; 13. Oh, Oh, Mexico; 14. Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers.;James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present thier extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long camp.