A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left

by Paul M. Buhle and Dave Wagner

Book Overview

When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled "a very dangerous citizen" by Harold Velde, a congressman from Illinois. Lawyer, educator, novelist, labor organizer, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236726
• ISBN13: 9780520236721
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"