The committee : a novel

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Label

The committee : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Sterling Watson

Creator

• trueWatson, Sterling

Author

• trueWatson, Sterling

Subject

• Fear -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Florida, Legislature | Legislative Investigation Committee -- Fiction
• Gainesville (Fla.) -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• College teachers -- Florida | Gainesville -- Fiction
• Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction
• Religion and politics -- Fiction
• Subversive activities -- Florida | Gainesville -- Fiction
• Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
• Control (Psychology) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In the late 1950s, Gainesville, Florida, seems to be a sleepy university town. Its residents live, by outward appearances, ordinary lives. And yet the town is far from ordinary. The most private acts of professors, students, townspeople rich and poor, and politicians are under the close scrutiny of a shadowy group of men--the Committee--who use the powers of government and the police to investigate, threaten, and control this increasingly fearful community. The Committee pits friends against friends and threatens careers and lives in a struggle for the soul of a town, a university, and an ideal. Based on actual historical events and set against the backdrop of political, cultural, and class turmoil, this is a story of love--both licit and hidden--war, friendship, betrayal, compromise, and finally the necessity to stand firm against the encroachments upon freedom by men who believe they are doing God's and the government's righteous work

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction