McCarthyism, the Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History Paperback - 1996
by Albert Fried
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The word "McCarthyism" became a public epithet-exactly who invented it is unknown-soon after February 9, 1950, the day U.S. Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, scarcely a household name outside his own state of Wisconsin, delivered a speech to a small Republican gathering in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism and The American Red Scare, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. It discusses the turbulent years during which Americans were routinely persecuted because they were suspected of being insufficiently patriotic or too sympathetic to the Soviet Union. The persecution took various forms, from imprisonment to the purging and blacklisting of untold thousands. Fried demonstrates how the end result was to consign the American radical left to irrelevancy, helping to ensure that already established policies, both foreign and domestic, would remain unchallenged. Fried provides informative introductions and headnotes for each section, as well as a useful bibliography. Through speeches, executive orders, congressional hearings, court decisions, official reports, letters, memoirs, and essays, this text offers the most sweeping and comprehensive look at McCarthyism, highlighting the cruelty, poignancy, and absurdity of this extraordinary period of time. Documenting both the persecuted and the persecutors, this is the definitive reader and core text for courses on McCarthyism, and an ideal supplement for courses on American history and political science.
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- Title McCarthyism, the Great American Red Scare: A Documentary History
- Author Albert Fried
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1996-12-12
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780195097016 / 0195097017
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.18 x 0.46 in (23.39 x 15.70 x 1.17 cm)
- Reading level 1350
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Radicalism - United States - History - 20th, McCarthy, Joseph
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96007280
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.9
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