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Record Nr.

UNINA9910518189203321

Autore

Yellin Ed <1927->

Titolo

In contempt : defending free speech, defeating HUAC / / Ed Yellin and Jean Fagan Yellin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

0-472-90264-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource 125 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Communist trials - United States - Gary, Indiana - 1958

Judicial process - Political aspects - United States - 20th century

Autobiography

History

Autobiographies.

Informational works.

Documents d'information

United States Politics and government 1953-1961

États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1953-1961

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Red diapers -- A knock at the door -- Will not/cannot -- Surprised and shocked -- Lacking contrition -- A snowball in hell -- In lieu of "ability" -- Uncompromising independence -- Under the velvet glove -- Not fine for Yellin.

Sommario/riassunto

"'YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council Chambers, City Hall, Gary, Indiana, then and there to testify touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee, and not to depart without leave of said committee.' So began a decade of hardship for Ed and Jean Yellin and their three young children as the repressive weight



of the U.S. government, caught up in the throes of McCarthyism, crashed down upon their careers, their daily household budget, and their relationships to colleagues, neighbors, and their country. In Contempt is a faithful, factual testament to the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in our evolving democracy--and a loving reconstruction of what it meant to be labeled "unAmerican" for defending the Constitution."