Unfriendly Witnesses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unfriendly Witnesses write by Milly S. Barranger. This book was released on 2008-06-10. Unfriendly Witnesses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era “witch hunts” for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter. The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead focused their attention on the men of the period. Author Milly S. Barranger looks at the gender issues inherent in the investigations and at the destructive impact the investigations had on the lives and careers of these seven women—and on American film and theater and culture in general. Issues of gender and politics surface in the women’s testimony before the committeemen, labeled “unfriendly” because the women refused to name names. Unfriendly Witnesses redresses the absence of women’s histories during this era of modern political history and identifies the enduring strains of McCarthyism in postmillennial America. Barranger recreates the congressional and state hearings that addressed the alleged Communist influence in the entertainment industry and examines in detail the cases of these seven women, including the appearance of actress Judy Holliday before the committee of Senator Pat McCarran, who aimed to limit the immigration of Eastern Europeans; actress Anne Revere and playwright Lillian Hellman, appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee, sought the protections of the Fifth Amendment with different outcomes; of writer Dorothy Parker, who testified before a New York state legislative committee investigating contributions to “front” groups; and of director Margaret Webster, before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s subcommittee, whose aim was the indictment of Senator J. William Fulbright and the U.S. State Department. None escaped subsequent blacklisting, denial of employment, and notations in FBI files that they were threats to national security. Unfriendly Witnesses is enhanced by nine illustrations and extensive excerpts from Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television, originally published in 1950 at the height of the Red Scare, and which listed 151 allegedly subversive writers, directors, and performers. Barranger includes the complete entries from Red Channels for the seven women she discusses, which include the “subversive” affiliations that prompted the women’s interrogation by the government.
Unfriendly Witnesses Invoke 5th Amendment
Unfriendly Witnesses Invoke 5th Amendment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unfriendly Witnesses Invoke 5th Amendment write by . This book was released on 195?. Unfriendly Witnesses Invoke 5th Amendment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Better World
A Better World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Better World write by William L. Oneill. This book was released on . A Better World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book chronicles the struggle among non-Communist leftists and liberals over American relations with the Soviet Union from 1939 through the 1950's. Few now care as passionately and as violently as people did then about Soviet-American relations. It was a time when friends became enemies, and others forged strange alliances, all in the name of commitments that today seem remote. A Better World evokes those times and their choices, and explains why these long-ago battles still arouse such deep feelings todayâand should. Americans who were pro-Soviet without being members of the Communist partyââprogressivesâ as t hey called themselvesâhad a large emotional investment in the Soviet Union. From 1935 to 1939 literally millions joined the âPopular Frontâ of pro-Soviet organiations. O'Neill takes us through the shock of the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939, through the revival of the Popular Front spurred by government and business support after Russia entered the war against Hitler. He traces the isolation of the anti-Stalinists, the rise and fall of Henry Wallace, and the eclipse of progressivism. And he explores the shifting allegiances of intellectuals as they struggled, often with each other, to influence the course of public debate, with long-lasting consequences for American intellect, culture, and morals. As O'Neill observes in his introduction, âMore than any of my other books A Better World inspired correspondents to send me probing or reflective letters.â It was this response, along with the extraordinary critical debate spurred by initial publication of this volume, that makes the book's continuing importance clear. The dream of achieving a better world through radical violence never dies, and the willingness of apologists to cling to utopian visions persists. As long as it does, the lessons of this book need to be available to us. William L. O'Neill is professor of history at Rutgers Universy, and the author of numerous books in recent American history.
Postwar America
Postwar America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postwar America write by James Ciment. This book was released on 2015-03-26. Postwar America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States became a major influence around the globe. On the domestic front, this period witnessed some of the most turbulent and prosperous years in American history. "Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" provides detailed coverage of all the remarkable developments within the United States during this period, as well as their dramatic impact on the rest of the world. A-Z entries address specific persons, groups, concepts, events, geographical locations, organizations, and cultural and technological phenomena. Sidebars highlight primary source materials, items of special interest, statistical data, and other information; and Cultural Landmark entries chronologically detail the music, literature, arts, and cultural history of the era. Bibliographies covering literature from the postwar era and about the era are also included, as are illustrations and specialized indexes.
Legislative Procedure ... Hearings .. on H. Res. 29
Legislative Procedure ... Hearings .. on H. Res. 29 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legislative Procedure ... Hearings .. on H. Res. 29 write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules. This book was released on 1954. Legislative Procedure ... Hearings .. on H. Res. 29 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
