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Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 3
- Author
- Eric Bentley
- Narrator
- various
- Publish Date
- 14 November 2014
- Run Time
- 15 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin.”
Dalton Trumbo, Academy Award–winning screenwriter and novelist
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“We have Bentley to thank for this bittersweet vaudeville show, this congressional cabaret of the absurd, this peptic epic…What he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering.”
New York Times
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“[Portrays] a dark chapter in our nation’s history that needs to be remembered.”
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Details
- Author
- Eric Bentley
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 15 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 November 2014
- ISBN
- 9781483027616
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- History of the Americas, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Synopsis
A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe 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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