Thirty Years of Treason, Volume 1

Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938 - 1968

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Nathan Dana Aldrich, Theodore Bikel, Claire Bloom, J. Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison

A fascinating look into the federal government's anti-Communist investigations

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the 30-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly 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.

©2014 Eric Bentley (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks