Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 1938 -1968; COMPLETE SET
[This is the Complete Set covering hearings from 1938 to 1968]
[Selected and Edited by Eric Bently]
[Includes bonus DVD and original afterword by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir]
[Read by A Full Cast - including Nathan Dana Aldrich, J. Paul Boehmer, Theodore Bikel, Claire Bloom, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Alex Hyde-White, Coleen Marlo, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, Dean Sluyter]
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/listenable 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.
[Selected and Edited by Eric Bently]
[Includes bonus DVD and original afterword by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir]
[Read by A Full Cast - including Nathan Dana Aldrich, J. Paul Boehmer, Theodore Bikel, Claire Bloom, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison, Alex Hyde-White, Coleen Marlo, Richard McGonagle, Jim Meskimen, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, Dean Sluyter]
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/listenable 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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About the Author:
Eric Bentley is the author of Bentley on Brecht, What Is Theater?, and other volumes about drama. Born in England in 1916, he was inducted into the American Hall of Fame in 1998. He lives in New York City.
Frank Rich served from 1980 to 1993 as the chief drama critic for the New York Times, and is now an op-ed columnist at the paper, as well as senior writer for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.
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Frank Rich served from 1980 to 1993 as the chief drama critic for the New York Times, and is now an op-ed columnist at the paper, as well as senior writer for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.
''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
''[Portrays] a dark chapter in our nation's history that needs to be remembered.'' --Library Journal
''The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin.'' --Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter and novelist
''[Portrays] a dark chapter in our nation's history that needs to be remembered.'' --Library Journal
''The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin.'' --Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter and novelist
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- PublisherSkyboat Media and Blackstone Audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1483040852
- ISBN 13 9781483040851
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