The dark times of McCarthyism, suspicion, and fear. The studio of a popular radio station is in turmoil: employees are accused of being communists, a magazine threatens to expose this information, a series of minor events leads to disasters, and director Clement Archer is faced with difficult choices again and again…
'Troubled Air' is a book about the constant inner struggle, about faith and the price paid for one's convictions, about conclusions made and not made, about different values ​​and how difficult it can be to convey them to another person.
The novel was published in 1951. After Irwin Shaw was accused of communist sympathies and his name was added to the 'Hollywood blacklist,' he left the United States and moved to Europe for twenty-five years.