From an award-winning McCarthy scholar comes the first post-Cold War exploration of the anticommunist witch-hunt and its devastating impact. Tracing the way that a network of dedicated anticommunists created blacklists and destroyed organizations, this broadbased inquiry reveals the connections between McCarthyism's disparate elements in the belief that understanding its terrible mechanics can prevent a repetition. of photos.
Ellen Schrecker is Professor of History at Yeshiva University. She has taught at Harvard and Princeton and has authored numerous books including the award-winning No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities and The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. She currently edits Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition ix Introduction xi PART ONE: ANTECEDENTS Chapter 1: "We Were Sitting Ducks": The World of American Communism 3 Chapter 2: "Red-Baiters, Inc.": The Development of an Anticommunist Network 42 Chapter 3: "In the Interest of National Security": Anticommunism and the Roosevelt Administration 86 PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS Chapter 4: "They Are Everywhere": The Communist Image 119 Chapter 5: "A Great and Total Danger": The Nature of the Communist Threat 154 PART THREE: INSTRUMENTS Chapter 6: "A Job for Professionals": The FBI and Anticommunism 203 Chapter 7: "In the Gutter": The Anticommunism of Joe McCarthy 240 Chapter 8: "A Badge of Infamy": Anticommunist Economic Sanctions and Political Dismissals 266 PART FOUR: INTERCONNECTIONS Chapter 9: "How Red Is a Valley": Clinton Jencks and His Union 309 Chapter 10: "A Good Deal of Trauma": The Impact of McCarthyism 359 Acknowledgments 417 Abbreviations 419 Sources 421 Notes 431 Index 551
"It's all here, carefully researched, well written, and with a detached view of both the pursuers and the pursued. Excellent."—John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University
John Kenneth Galbraith
It's all here, carefully researched, well written, and with a detached view of both the pursuers and the pursued. Excellent.
John Kenneth Galbraith
It's all here, carefully researched, well written, and with a detached view of both the pursuers and the pursued. Excellent. — John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University
