HARRY, TOM, AND FATHER RICE by John P. Hoerr ( 9780822959663 )

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Title:

HARRY, TOM, AND FATHER RICE
ACCUSATION AND BETRAYAL IN AMERICA'S COLD WAR

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0822959666

ISBN 13:

9780822959663

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS

Pub. date:

15 January, 2007

Pages:

344

Description:

Tells the story of three men - Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice - whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. This story helps illuminate one of the most repressive periods in American history.

Synopsis:

John Hoerr tells the story of three men - his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice - whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. The story helps illuminate one of the most repressive periods in American history, when thousands of Americans guilty only of enlisting in leftist causes were caught up in dragnets cast by overzealous Communist hunters on behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and other bodies. Much has been written about well-known cultural figures (the Hollywood Ten) and prominent writers (Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman) who contended with HUAC. Hoerr tells of mostly ordinary Americans who were largely unknown at the time, but whose stories are nonetheless remarkable. Writing from personal experience with the title characters as well as archival research, Hoerr recreates the events of the 1949 HUAC hearings, where rigged testimony by a few workers cast suspicion on their union brothers. The results would echo through the years, causing people to lose jobs, marriages, and self-respect.Hoerr traces the paths followed by "Harry, Tom, and Father Rice" and relates their individual experiences to the great conflict between anti-Communist and Communist forces in the American labor movement, which led to the eventual demise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

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24 illustrations

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Imprint:

University of Pittsburgh Press

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Returnable

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