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False Witness

By (author) Melvin Rader, Afterword by Leonard Schroeter





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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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Publisher | University of Washington Press
Published date | 1 Dec 1997
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 264
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 318g
ISBN | 978-0-2959-7702-7
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BISAC | political science / political process / general


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