In the summer of 1948, with Cold War tensions rising, a young state legislator from Spokane, Washington, named Albert Canwell set out to combat the "communist menace" through a state version of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. University of Washington professor Melvin Rader was a victim of the Canwell Committee's rush to judgment, but he fought back. False Witness tells of his struggle to clear his name. It is a testament of personal courage in the face of mass hysteria and a cautionary example of how basic ...
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In the summer of 1948, with Cold War tensions rising, a young state legislator from Spokane, Washington, named Albert Canwell set out to combat the "communist menace" through a state version of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. University of Washington professor Melvin Rader was a victim of the Canwell Committee's rush to judgment, but he fought back. False Witness tells of his struggle to clear his name. It is a testament of personal courage in the face of mass hysteria and a cautionary example of how basic freedoms can rapidly erode when the powers of the state are allowed to serve a rigid ideological agenda.
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Good+ Crisp, clean pages except for a prior owner's name on the half-title and three small, brown spots on the outside edges of the page block; the soft cover has mild sunning along the spine and a little shelfwear at corners but is overall clean and well-kept. xxvi, 209pp. I hate how relevant this is now (government committee dragging academics for imaginary political stances).
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Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by Author "At the heart of the book is the hearing before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the Washington State Legislature in 1948, in which the author and several of his colleagues on the faculty of the University of Washington were accused of membership in the Communist Party."
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