The Revolt of Mamie Stover

The Revolt of Mamie Stover is a 1951 novel by William Bradford Huie about a young woman from Mississippi who goes to Hollywood to work as an actress.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover is an allegory for the decline of American society because of the country-wide democratization that conflict made possible.

Using a Honolulu prostitute to state his case, Huie shows her rise economically, socially, and politically with the aid, in part, of the federal government as she flouts local regulation (prostitution itself being legal at the time).

In the first and third books, he is primarily present in order to observe and report, and in the second he relates his experiences in the late stages of World War II.

A movie version directed by Raoul Walsh was released in 1956 with Jane Russell in the title role.