Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 3, Eric Bentley
Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 3, Eric Bentley
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Thirty Years of Treason, Vol. 3
Excerpts from Hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1953–1968

Author: Eric Bentley

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir, a full cast, Nathan Dana Aldrich, Roscoe Lee Browne, Robertson Dean, Richard Gilliland, Stephen Hoye, Alex Hyde-White, Sunil Malhotra, Jim Meskimen, Arthur Morey, Burt Reynolds, Stefan Rudnicki, Christian Rummel, Molly Underwood

Unabridged: 15 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 11/14/2014


Synopsis

A chilling reenactment of the federal government’s anti-Communist investigationsThe testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. Thirty Years of Treason serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record.

About Eric Bentley

Eric Bentley is the author of Bentley on Brecht, What Is Theater?, and other volumes about drama. Born in England in 1916, he was inducted into the American Hall of Fame in 1998. He lives in New York City.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award.  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has acted on- and off-Broadway and in many leading roles at regional theaters throughout the United States. His film work includes Star Trek: Nemesis and Vanilla Sky.

About Stephen Hoye

Stephen Hoye has worked as a professional actor in London and Los Angeles for more than 30 years. Trained at Boston University and The Guildhall in London, he has appeared in several feature films, television series, and on stage in London’s West End.

About Alex Hyde-White

Alex Hyde-White is an actor and a producer of two films and hundreds of audiobooks thru his label Punch Audio.

About Sunil Malhotra

Sunil Malhotra is an actor and voice artist. His film credits include Dude, Where’s the Party?, Call Center, 24, ER, Cold Case, and The West Wing. On stage, he has performed on Broadway and at East West Players. He has also worked as a writer, producer, and director, and his audiobook narrations have won three AudioFile Earphones Awards.

About Jim Meskimen

Jim Meskimen is an audiobook narrator and a stage, film, and television actor who has appeared in many well-known movies and television shows.

About Arthur Morey

Arthur Morey has recorded countless audiobooks, including titles by such authors as M. Scott Peck, John Updike, Richard Russo, Anne Tyler, and John Irving. He attended Harvard and the University of Chicago and has taught performance and writing at Fordham, Northwestern, and the Art Institute of Chicago.  Arthur has appeared in a host of off-Broadway and off-Loop productions.  He has won three AudioFile Magazine 'Best Of' Awards: in 2011 for BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY, in for History & Historical Fiction, and in 2009 for Nonfiction & Culture.  His work has also garnered multiple AudioFile Earphones awards, and he has been nominated for an Audie Award.

About Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds began his acting career on Broadway and in TV Westerns before his breakout film performance in Deliverance. His other leading roles include films such as The Longest Yard, Hustle, Gator, Smokey and the Bandit, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Striptease, and Boogie Nights, for which he earned a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Reynolds also received an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his starring role on the popular sitcom Evening Shade.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. 

About Christian Rummel

Christian Rummel is a classically trained stage actor with over twenty-five years of experience. He has narrated over 300 audiobooks and is the voice of Ruin in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, COD: Black Ops 4, and COD: Mobile, as well as the voice of Stryker in COD: Black Ops Cold War and COD: Warzone. He has also done voice-over for film, voicing the demon Balban in The Exorcism of God and one of the Souls of the Damned in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. He lives in Los Angeles with his pack: wife, dog, and cat.


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Quotes

“The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin.” Dalton Trumbo, Academy Award–winning screenwriter and novelist

“We have Bentley to thank for this bittersweet vaudeville show, this congressional cabaret of the absurd, this peptic epic…What he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering.” New York Times

“[Portrays] a dark chapter in our nation’s history that needs to be remembered.” Library Journal