“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
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- Thirty Years of Treason
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Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Excerpts by various authors
Read by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigations
The testimony that Eric Bentley 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 dramatic and compelling 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.
- Thirty Years of Treason
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Selected and edited by Eric Bentley
Excerpts by various authors
Read by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/03/15
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1
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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
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Release Date: 5/06/14
Formats: Digital Audy
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.
- Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 1
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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
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Release Date: 5/06/14
Formats: Digital Audy