Thirty Years of Treason

Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities 1938-1968: Complete Set

By: Eric Bentley - editor

Narrated by: Nathan Dana Aldrich, Theodore Bikel, Claire Bloom, J. Paul Boehmer, Scott Brick, full cast

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

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this audiobook 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.

©2011 Nation Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc.

Miraculously, up to 100 actors turned this book into an incredibly engaging, passionate presentation.

I was born in 1950, and as a result of my job as a newspaper delivery boy I read the paper every day from the age of nine. I had emotional connections with many of the Hollywood people caught up in the "red scare", and had a passionate love for my country which was no doubt largely the result of World War II and the involvement of both of my parents and many of my uncles in the military during that period. But I was also a child of the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and their many flying monkeys were well known to me. This book was an incredible roller coaster ride through the events of my youth. It is incredibly well done. Listen to it ASAP.