2003, ISBN: 9780679443995

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New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xiv, 685, [5] pages. Sources. Index. Slight wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author on… Mehr…

New York: Random House, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xiv, 685, [5] pages. Sources. Index. Slight wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: For Bradley Patterson, Ted Morgan. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and back flap crease. Ted Morgan (born March 30, 1932) is a French-American biographer, journalist, and historian. Morgan won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. In the 1970s, Morgan stopped using the byline "Sanche de Gramont". He became an American citizen in 1977, renouncing his titles of nobility. The name he adopted as a U.S. citizen, "Ted Morgan", is an anagram of "de Gramont". The new name was a conscious attempt to discard his aristocratic French past. He had settled on a "name that conformed with the language and cultural norms of American society, a name that telephone operators and desk clerks could hear without flinching". Morgan was featured in the CBS news program 60 Minutes in 1978. The segment explored Morgan's reasons for embracing American culture. In this landmark work, Morgan examines the McCarthyite strain in American politics, from its origins following the Bolshevik Revolution. Morgan argues that Senator Joseph McCarthy was the most prominent in a long line of men who exploited the issue of Communism for political advantage. Soviet subversion and espionage in the United States began in 1920. Roosevelt granted the Soviets diplomatic recognition in 1933, which gave them an opportunity to expand their spy networks. Martin Dies, Jr., the first congressman to make his name as a Red hunter, developed information on Communist subversion through his Un-American Activities Committee. Using Joseph McCarthy's previously unavailable private papers and recently released transcripts of closed hearings of McCarthy's investigations subcommittee, Morgan provides many new insights. Full of drama and intrigue, finely etched portraits, and political revelations, Reds brings to life a critical period in American history that has profound relevance to our own time., Random House, 2003, 3<

2003, ISBN: 0679443991

[EAN: 9780679443995], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 5.5], [PU: Random House], Jacket, New York :Random House, 2004. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 704 pp. - In this landmark work, Pulitzer … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780679443995], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 5.5], [PU: Random House], Jacket, New York :Random House, 2004. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 704 pp. - In this landmark work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan examines the McCarthyite strain in American politics, from its origins in the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Morgan argues that Senator Joseph McCarthy did not emerge in a vacuum-he was, rather, the most prominent in a long line of men who exploited the issue of Communism for political advantage. In 1918, America invaded Russia in an attempt at regime change. Meanwhile, on the home front, the first of many congressional investigations of Communism was conducted. Anarchist bombs exploded from coast to coast, leading to the political repression of the Red Scare. Soviet subversion and espionage in the United States began in 1920, under the cover of a trade mission. Franklin Delano Roosevelt granted the Soviets diplomatic recognition in 1933, which gave them an opportunity to expand their spy networks by using their embassy and consulates as espionage hubs. Simultaneously, the American Communist Party provided a recruitment pool for homegrown spies. Martin Dies, Jr., the first congressman to make his name as a Red hunter, developed solid information on Communist subversion through his Un-American Activities Committee. However, its hearings were marred by partisan attacks on the New Deal, presaging McCarthy. The most pervasive period of Soviet espionage came during World War II, when Russia, as an ally of the United States, received military equipment financed under the policy of lend-lease. It was then that highly placed spies operated inside the U.S. government and in America's nuclear facilities. Thanks to the Venona transcripts of KGB cable traffic, we now have a detailed account of wartime Soviet espionage, down to the marital problems of Soviet spies and the KGB's abject efforts to capture deserting Soviet seamen on American soil. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780679443995. Keywords : HISTORY,, Books<

2003, ISBN: 9780679443995

New York: Random House, 2003. 685 pages. Light soiling, foxing along page ends. Tears on the dust jacket at the top of the spine and on the back cover. The dust jacket offers the follo… Mehr…

New York: Random House, 2003. 685 pages. Light soiling, foxing along page ends. Tears on the dust jacket at the top of the spine and on the back cover. The dust jacket offers the following claim: "...by the time McCarthy exploited the Red issue in 1950, the battle against Communists had been all but won by the Truman Administration.". 1st Ed.. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good. Anti-Anti-Communism., Random House, 2003, 2.75<