False Witness Paperback - 1997
by Melvin Rader; Afterword by Leonard Schroeter
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In the summer of 1948, with Cold War tensions rising, a young state legislator front 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. Fifty years after the Canwell Committee's inception, False Witness is reissued as part of the All Powers Project, a multidisciplinary effort by the University of Washington to recreate, reexamine, and redefine the significance today of those tumultuous times. The book includes a new Afterword by Leonard Schroeter, a Seattle attorney and activist who succeeded Melvin Rader as president of the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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- Title False Witness
- Author Melvin Rader; Afterword by Leonard Schroeter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Edition Us
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Washington Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-12
- ISBN 9780295977027 / 0295977027
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.57 x 5.56 x 0.69 in (21.77 x 14.12 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Washington
- Library of Congress subjects Washington (State), Rader, Melvin Miller
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97032719
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.7
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