False Witness: (2nd edition)
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Melvin Rader (Author) Leonard Schroeter (Contributor)
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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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- Contributor: Melvin Rader
- Imprint: University of Washington Press
- ISBN13: 9780295977027
- Number of Pages: 264
- Packaged Weight: 318
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Release Date: 1997-12-01
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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