John Hoerr tells the story of three men his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice whose lives became intertwined during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy Era. The story helps illuminate one of the more repressive periods in American history, when thousands of Americans guilty only of enlisting in leftist causes were caught up in dragnets cast by overzealous Communist hunters on behalf of the House Un-American Activities Committee and other bodies. Much has been written about well-known cultural figures (the Hollywood Ten), and...
John Hoerr tells the story of three men his uncle, Congressman Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice whose lives be...
