Disturbed Air

Dark times of McCarthyism, suspicion, and fear. The atmosphere in the studio of a popular radio station is tense: employees are accused of being communists, the magazine threatens to reveal this information, a series of minor events leads to catastrophes, and director Clement Archer repeatedly faces difficult choices… «Disturbed Air» — is a book about the relentless inner struggle, about faith and the price for one’s beliefs, about conclusions made and unmade, about different values, and how sometimes it is difficult to convey them to another person. The novel was published in 1951. After Irwin Shaw was accused of sympathizing with communists and was blacklisted in Hollywood, he left the United States and moved to Europe for twenty-five years.