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Thirty years of treason, excerpts from hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968, selected and edited by Eric Bentley ; introduction by Frank Rich

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Thirty years of treason, excerpts from hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968, selected and edited by Eric Bentley ; introduction by Frank Rich

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eng

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Main title

Thirty years of treason

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884789156

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selected and edited by Eric Bentley ; introduction by Frank Rich

Sub title

excerpts from hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968

Summary

A chilling reenactment of the federal government's anti-Communist investigations. 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. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record

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30 years of treason