You Are There, a classic of television's Golden Age, was produced by CBS News in its New York Studios from 1953 through 1955.  Each episode, "reported" by such journalists as Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Bill Leonard, investigated a historical event as if it were current breaking news. 

The series was directed by Sidney Lumet and starred such luminaries as James Dean, Paul Newman, Rod Steiger, E.G. Marshall, John Cassevetes, and Lorne Greene. 

The three key writers who created the show--Abraham Polonsky, Arnold Manoff, and Walter Bernstein--were blacklisted by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities.  Not able to officially work on the program, they submitted their scripts through "fronts."  (This volume re-establishes screen credit for ten of Polonsky's episodes.)  Polonsky was blacklisted until 1968. 

In this volume-- 

• Cortez Conquers Mexico
• The Crisis of Galileo
• The Fate of Nathan Hale
• The Secret of Sigmund Freud
• The Recognition of Michelangelo
• The Vindication of Savonarola
• Mallory's Tragedy on Mt. Everest
• The Emergence of Jazz
• The Torment of Beethoven
• The Tragedy of John Milton

It's a damn good program. . . . How do you get away with it?  
 --Edward R. Murrow

The show was part of early television's voyage of discovery and we were pleased to be aboard.  
--Mike Wallace 
             
We were conducting guerrilla warfare against McCarthy and the Committee.  
--Abraham Polonsky