Description
"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.
About the Author
Ed Yellin was Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jean Fagan Yellin is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Pace University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472038916
Author Ed Yellin
Format Paperback
Page Count 140
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
