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

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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