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NIGHTMARE IN RED: The McCarthy Era in Perspective - Couverture souple

FRIED, Richard M.

 
9780195043617: NIGHTMARE IN RED: The McCarthy Era in Perspective
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195043618 ISBN 13 : 9780195043617
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

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.

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Author of Men Against McCarthy (1976)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195043618
ISBN 13 
9780195043617
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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