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Goodman, Walter. The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968.

A highly readable account of HUAC.

O'Reilly, Kenneth. Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

A study of the anti-communism crusades of the 1950s and 1960s as waged by the FBI and HUAC.

Ceplair, Larry and Steven Englund. The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980.

A study of Communists in Hollywood and the HUAC hearings.

Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

A study of anti-Communism that focuses on Senator Joseph McCarthy as a symbol of much larger forces.

Schrecker, Ellen W. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

A study of anti-communism crusade as it affected universities.

Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

A study of urban landscapes as they relate to popular culture, with a discussion of Disneyland..

More Books of Interest

Vaughn, Stephen.  Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

A study of Reagan as a film and political actor that emphasizes the sharp changes from the pre to the post-World War II period.

Pomerantz, Charlotte, ed. A Quarter Century of Un-Americana, 1938-1963: A Tragico-Comical Memorabilia of HUAC, House Un-American Activities Committee. New York: Marzani & Munsell, 1963.

A history of HUAC in cartoons.

Watts, Steven. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

A biography of Walt Disney.

Smoodin, Eric, ed. Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom. New York : Routledge, 1994.

A collection of essays on Disneyworld.

Film and Video

Committee on Un-American Activities. 1 reel. 196?. Film.

Includes personal narratives, documentary clips from committee proceedings and coverage of demonstrations in 1960. In IMC. FILM Md46

Salt of the Earth. Directed by Herbert Biberman. 94m. 1954. Videorecording.

A social drama which depicts the attempt of a New Mexican mining company to break a union strike of underprivileged Mexican and American workers who endeavor to prevent their wives from participation on an equal basis in the strike. Made by writers and actors blacklisted from Hollywood.VIDEOTAPE 00972

HUAC and Censorship

An overview of HUAC and its effect on Hollywood. http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/huac.htm

Lillian Hellman’s FBI File

Details FBI surveillance of Lillian Hellman. http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/hellman-per-fbi.html

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Home page of the successor to the Atomic Energy Commission. http://www.nrc.gov/

Bernstein, Walter. Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996.

An autobiography by a Hollywood writer blacklisted in the 1950s.

Hellman, Lillian. Scoundrel Time. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.

Hellman’s autobiography.

Ottenheimer, Albert. Papers, 1935-1980.

Consists of investigation files relating to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, including a diary he kept during his 30-day jail sentence. In Special Collections.

Dmytryk, Edward. Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.

An autobiography by a member of the Hollywood Ten.

Fariello, Griffin. Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition: An Oral History. New York: Norton, 1995.

Several oral accounts of people who went before HUAC.

United States. Congress. House. Committee. On Un-American Activities. Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion-Picture Industry Hearing Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first [-second] session.

In government documents.

Flynn, John Thomas. Papers, 1928-1961.

Consists of book manuscripts including an unpublished autobiographical manuscript by Martin Dies; 800 manuscripts of periodical articles; manuscripts of speeches; scripts of radio broadcasts; correspondence; America First Committee files; reference and source files; and personal miscellany. In Special Collections.

The Testimony of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

http://eserver.org/filmtv/disney-huac-testimony.txt

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board and Texts of Principal Documents and Letters. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971

Hearings about the U.S. decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who had been in charge of America's atomic bomb-building project in Los Alamos, Mexico, during World War II.