False Witness - Softcover

Rader, Melvin Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295956607 ISBN 13: 9780295956602

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1979

Synopsis

In the summer of 1948, with Cold War tensions rising, a young state legislator from Spokane, Washington, named Albert Canwell set out to combat the "communist menace" through a state version of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. University of Washington professor Melvin Rader was a victim of the Canwell Committee's rush to judgment, but he fought back. False Witness tells of his struggle to clear his name. It is a testament of personal courage in the face of mass hysteria and a cautionary example of how basic freedoms can rapidly erode when the powers of the state are allowed to serve a rigid ideological agenda.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295956607
• ISBN 13: 9780295956602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232