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

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUACâ 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 â dignifiedâ 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. â The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin.â â Dalton Trumbo â ...what he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering.â â Victor Navasky, The New York Times