| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 427 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"A Manly, Inc. Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An actual communist threat? -- African American politics -- The Amerasia Case -- Anti-Communism and the civil rights movement -- Art and politics -- Artistic expression -- Civil liberties -- Committee on Un-American Activities -- Communism and labor -- CPUSA and racial equality -- The CPUSA in American life -- Democrats and Republicans -- Destruction of the American Left -- Education -- Emergence of McCarthyism -- End of the Red Scare -- Federal loyalty program -- Foreign-policy consequences -- High court decisions -- The Alger Hiss case -- The Hollywood blacklist -- Hollywood Ten -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Ideological roots -- Impact of the CPUSA -- Informers -- Local and state activity -- McCarran Act -- Nixon's impact -- Overthrowing the government? -- Peace advocates -- Popular fears -- Prosecution of Communist Party leaders -- Red Scare as a model -- Red Scare legacy -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. |
| Summary |
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Red Scare after 1945. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments. |
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Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Political persecution -- United States.
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Internal security -- United States -- History.
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Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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History, Modern -- 20th century.
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United States -- History -- 1945-
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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| Added Author |
Lieberman, Robbie, 1954- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History in dispute, Volume 19. Detroit, Mich. : St. James Press, c2005 9781558624955 |
| ISBN |
9781558627239 (electronic book) |
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1558627235 (electronic book) |
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9781558624955 |
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1558624953 |
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