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

By Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner
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By Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner
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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. The New York Times called his blacklisting t...

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