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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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