It is when prominent people were asked “are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party,” and to sign a loyalty oath to the United States. The year is 1953, the time of the House Un-American Activities investigations and the ascendency of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Springer has come to New York to warn the FBI that the Trudeau Foundation is under the influence of Communists.
Arnold Springer, the director of the Trudeau Foundation’s Saranac Laboratory in Saranac Lake. Holtzman begins his story in the New York City office of FBI agent Larry Crane, who is meeting with Dr.
A decade later, Bethune became a well-known Communist, working, and dying, in China. Holtzman’s new novel, “The Bethune Murals,” focuses on Norman Bethune, a physician who was a tuberculosis patient at Trudeau Sanatorium in the 1920s.
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