Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968

United States Congress - House Committee; Eric Bentley

ISBN 10: 0670701653 / ISBN 13: 9780670701650

Published by Viking, 1971

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0670701653I4N10

Synopsis:

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. This book serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record. "The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin." �Dalton Trumbo "...what he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering."�Victor Navasky, The New York Times

Bibliographic Details

Title: Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from ...
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket