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Tony Kahn's Fugitive: My Childhood on the Hollywood Blacklist is a graphic, childhood memoir of life under the Hollywood Blacklist and Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. Told in a riveting, cinematic style, it recounts the fifteen years Gordon Kahn, a Hollywood Screenwriter, lost his career and lived under the constant threat of imprisonment for his left-wing political views. Eugitive is a harrowing personal account of a time of fear as seen through the eyes of a child, and of the fifteen years his family spent on the run from FBI surveillance, intimidation, and denunciations as "enemies of the state." Fugitive is also a cautionary tale of how easily the world's most open society almost became a police state without a single shot being fired, and how easily the threat to our liberties can come again.

Tony Kahn has written, produced, narrated, and hosted more than fifty radio and television programs and series for PBS, NPR, Nickelodeon, A&E Cable, Monitor Radio, CBS Cable, and television stations WGBH and WCVB. He was also the producer and narrator of the NPR docu-drama series "Blacklisted," which chronicled the Hollywood blacklisting of his screenwriter father, Gordon Kahn, during the McCarthy era.