Book review - "Charlie Chaplin vs. America" by Scott Eyman

 Eyman's done a few books about famous right wingers so here's one about a left winger. It doesn't take on all of Chaplin's life, it focuses bascially on the hatred America had for him - elements of it. It stars at Chaplin's peak in the 1930s then goes into his battles for The Great Dictator, World War Two and the way the USA turned on him - or at least his critics grew in power. It was vicious and ferocious, the big fat slab of facism within American politics (we have it too) going berserk. It wasn't a tragedy as Chaplin held on to his money and had a happy last marriage but it was pretty brutal. A moving book.