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Operation Mind: A Brief Documentary Account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And Why It Matters Now.

By (author) Natalie Zemon Davis, By (author) Elizabeth Douvan

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Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvanâ€™s Operation Mind is a body of evidence, a prophetic warning, and a call to action about the urgency of doing all we can to prevent thought control in America. In 1952, this meticulously researched pamphlet documented the House Committee on Un-American Activitiesâ€™ attacks and impact. The HUAC abused its charge to intimidate and silence academics, union members, social critics, scientists, artists, teachers, political opponents, rabbis and other religious leaders, to make them appear suspect and â€œun-Americanâ€ in the eyes of the American people. The 2025 reprint of Operation Mind offers a foreword by comparatist Silke-Maria Weineck, an essay by historian Alan Wald connecting Operation Mindâ€™s history of McCarthyism with present-day attacks on academic freedom, and a new (2023) introduction to the text by Natalie Zemon Davis.