Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story [Paperback]

In this compelling portrait of a unique family and a peculiarly American tragedy, Patricia Bosworth has brought to life an entire era: Roosevelt's New Deal, the triumphant Left, the victory of World War II, and then the fall of liberalism and the dawn of the Cold War.

Bosworth'sAnything Your Little Heart Desiresexplores the political turmoil, which created an environment of anticommunist hysteria that ruined many lives full of promise.Patricia Bosworth is an American journalist and biographer, memoirist, and actress. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist.