Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1 by Eric Bentley audiobook

Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1: Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1948

Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir
Performed by Theodore Bikel, Orson Scott Card, Harlan Ellison, Jim Meskimen, Stefan Rudnicki, and a full cast

Skyboat Media 9781560253686

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Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781482999624

  • ISBN: 9781482999600

  • ISBN: 9781482999617

Runtime: 13.30 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/History
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations

Eric Bentley has chosen highlights from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee to demonstrate HUAC’s focus on artists, intellectuals, and performers. Volume 1: 1938–1948 includes the testimonies of Hallie Flanagan, Ayn Rand, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Gary Cooper, Bertolt Brecht and many others. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“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

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/History
Runtime: 13.30
Audience: Adult
Language: English