Books by Rob Leicester Wagner
Janaway Publishing, Inc. , 2016
Rob Wagner's Script, the film literary magazine published between 1929 and 1949, was Hollywood's ... more Rob Wagner's Script, the film literary magazine published between 1929 and 1949, was Hollywood's only left-leaning, rabble-rousing movie publication that provided its readers with a regular dose of progressive politics, open love letters to the Soviet Union and a forum for such leftists as Dalton Trumbo and Charlie Chaplin. Rob Wagner founded the magazine on socialist principles. Its remarkable success in a company town ruled by conservative studio moguls is testament to Wagner's humorous but sophisticated approach to Depression-era radical politics. Author Rob Leicester Wagner, the great-grandson of Wagner, traces the birth of Script to the Red Scare of 1918-1919. The US government spied on Wagner and used his friends to inform on him for his antiwar activities and alleged German sympathies. The government ultimately attempted, but failed, to indict him on sedition charges. In Hollywood Bohemia: The Roots of Progressive Politics in Rob Wagner's Script, the author uses declassified War Department and FBI files and Rob Wagner's own personal diaries to deliver a portrait of a man driven to extol the virtues of socialism in an industry that best illustrates the unstoppable engine of capitalism. Illus., Notes, Index.
Papers by Rob Leicester Wagner
Sabretache (Vol. LVIII, No.4 ): 26-38., 2017
Dr. Laura E. Forster was one of a handful of female Australian physicians to volunteer to serve a... more Dr. Laura E. Forster was one of a handful of female Australian physicians to volunteer to serve as a battlefield surgeon during World War I. Although accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, both in Edinburgh, she was Initially rejected by the patriarchal British medical military establishment. However, Dr. Forster joined the British Committee of the French Red Cross. With other female surgeons of equal talent, she served during the 1914 siege of Antwerp by the German Army. Later she worked in field hospitals in France, Turkey, the Caucasus and Russia. She worked a lengthy stint with the Russian Red Cross, in which she treated Armenian and Muslim civilians during the Russian Caucasus Army assault on Erzurum against the Ottoman Third Army. Dr. Forster then joined the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in Zaleschiki, Galicia, Russia to treat soldiers of the Russian Ninth and Seventh armies under the famed General Aleksei Brusilov. She died in February 1917 while treating civilian casualties at a field hospital in Zaleschiki at the age of 58.
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Books by Rob Leicester Wagner
Papers by Rob Leicester Wagner