Nightmare in Red: The Mccarthy Era in Perspective - Couverture rigide

Fried, Richard M.

 
9780195043600: Nightmare in Red: The Mccarthy Era in Perspective
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ISBN 10 : 019504360X ISBN 13 : 9780195043600
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1990

Synopsis

A look at 'McCarthyism' in its historical context, from the rise of extreme anti-communism in the 1930s to its demise in the late 50s and 60s.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-war periods. Along the way we meet important actors in the Red-baiting drama, including Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood Ten, and, of course, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Fried, however, also documents the more sweeping and less public effects of McCarthyism on thousands of people, from teachers and lawyers to washroom attendants forced to take loyalty tests. As Fried shows, these 'insignificant' stories are perhaps the strongest testament to the social and political climate which terrorized many ordinary citizens during the McCarthy years.

Revue de presse

`Mr Fried writes ably, scrupulously presenting both sides of every issue; no-one will ever do a better six page precis of the Alger Hiss case.'The New York Times Book Review

`A richly detailed history of America's ongoing frenzy of fear over communism.'Book World

`well-researched book ... Anyone interested in this short span of American political history will find this erudite book both interesting and absorbing.' The News Line

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019504360X
ISBN 13 
9780195043600
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780195043617: NIGHTMARE IN RED: The McCarthy Era in Perspective

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0195043618 ISBN 13 :  9780195043617
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1991
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