Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents - Taschenbuch

EAN (ISBN-13): 9780312393199
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0312393199
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Herausgeber: BEDFORD BOOKS
308 Seiten
Gewicht: 0,327 kg
Sprache: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 0312393199

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Autor des Buches: ellen
Titel des Buches: age mccarthyism brief history with documents, culture series

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Autor/in: Ellen Schrecker
Titel: The Bedford Series in History and Culture; The Age of McCarthyism - A Brief History with Documents
Verlag: Bedford; Macmillan Learning
350 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001-11-09
New York; GB
Sprache: Englisch
34,23 € (DE)
35,19 € (AT)
37,99 CHF (CH)
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BC; Book; Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Regionalgeschichte, Ländergeschichte; Amerikanische Geschichte; cold war; work; spy; employment; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); government; communism; B; History of the Americas; Political Science and International Studies; EA; BC; EA; EA

Foreword.- Preface.- PART ONE THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM.- Introduction.- The American Communist Party.- The Growth of the Anti-Communist Network.- Communism and National Security: The Menace Emerges.- The State Steps In: Setting the Anticommunist Agenda.- Communists in Government and the Big Spy Cases.- Atomic Espionage.- The Loyalty-Security Program.- The Assault on the Communist Party.- The Destruction of the Communist Fronts and Unions.- Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses.- Redbaiting and Careerism: Joseph McCarthy at Work.- Congressional Investigations and the 'Loss of China'.- Anticommunism at the State and Local Levels.- Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions.- Liberals and McCarthyism.- The Legacy of McCarthyism.- Interpreting McCarthyism: A Bibliographical Essay.- PART TWO DOCUMENTS.- The World of American Communism: Party Members Talk About Their Experiences.- From the Communist Party's Perspective: William Z.Foster Looks at the World in 1947.- The Communist Menace: An American Legion.- View To Quarantine Communism: J.Edgar Hoover Speaks to the American People.- Communist Spies in the State Department: The Emergence of the Hiss Case.- Atom Spies or Cold War Martyrs? The Rosenberg Case.- The Truman Administration Deals with the Communist Menace: The 1947 Loyalty-Security Program.- E.O.9835 A Political Test for Employment: The Loyalty Security Program in Operation.- Guilt by Designation: The Attorney General's List.- Communism in Court: Excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party's Eleven Top Leaders.- Outlawing the Communist Party: The Supreme Court Upholds the Smith Act.- A Liberal Opposes Anticommunist Legislation: Truman Vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950.- Purging the Labour Movement: The CIO Expels Its Left-wing Unions.- The Dilemma of an Unfriendly Witness: Lillian Hellman Takes the Fifth Amendment.- 'Are You Now...?' HUAC Investigates Hollywood.- 'I Have in My Hand...':Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges That There Are Communists In the State Department.- The Hollywood Blacklist Begins: Studio Heads Fire the Hollywood Ten.- The Blacklisters' Bible: Red Channels The Blacklist.- In Operation: Testimony From the John Henry Faulk Trial of 1962.- Unfriendly Witnesses and their Lawyers: The HUAC Testimony of Robert Treuhaft.- A Liberal Deplores the Witch-Hunt: Supreme Court Justice William O.Douglas On 'The Black Silence of Fear'.- APPENDICES: Chronology.- Index.
Includes a wide range of original documents including new ones from recentlyopened Soviet archives