A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
Paperback
$34.95
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
When he was summoned before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (19111999) 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 fulltime radical romantic, Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. The New York Times called his blacklisting t...


