False Witness - Couverture souple

Rader, Melvin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295977027 ISBN 13 : 9780295977027

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295977027
• ISBN 13: 9780295977027
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 264
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