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the great American Red Scare ; a documentary history
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 head notes 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
Introduction: definitions: Intimations of things to come -- Sinn of advocacy -- HUAC gets under way -- J. Edgar Hoover alerts the Nation -- Right to wiretap -- Un-Americanism in California -- McCarthyism in Earnest: Defining loyalty -- Two case studies -- O. Edmund Clubb -- Case number 16 -- Cleaning out the Unions -- Ordeal of John Howard Lawson -- In defense of the Hollywood Ten -- Hollywood's response -- Trying the Communists -- Liberal response and counter response -- Liberal idealism: Contra loyalty reviews -- Liberal realism: Pro loyalty reviews -- In defense of liberal anti communism -- Communist advises ant communism liberals -- Throwing the Communists out of the CIO -- Liberal anti communism extremis -- Case of the American Civil Liberties Union -- McCarthy the man: McCarthyism triumphant -- McCarthy anticipates McCarthyism -- Versions of the Wheeling speech -- Mrs. Smith's declaration of conscience -- Democratic rebuttal -- Total security: McCarran Act -- McCarthy unbound -- McCarthy's assault on General Marshall -- McCarthy in full stride -- McCarthy as hero -- Judicial Acquiescence: Court gives the go ahead -- Defining the Fifth -- Loyalty, past, present and future -- Suppression legalized: Dennis versus United States -- New York leads the way -- Inquisition triumphant -- Blacklisters at work: Red channels: Larry Adler -- Leonard Bernstein -- Paul Draper -- Will Geere -- Arthur Miller -- California Loyalty Club -- Reagan versus Reds -- Industry goes along -- How to get off, or avoid getting on the blacklist -- Pathos of Larry Parks -- Kazan explains why -- Hellman's cry of conscience -- Right and responsibilities of universities and their faculties -- Stander confound HUAC -- Dr. Oppenheimer's disagree -- Butterfly and the Committee -- Paul Robeson takes on the Committee -- Expulsions and imprisonments -- Adler's lament -- Fruits of defiance: Lardner -- Fruits of defiance: Bessie -- Travails of a Communist -- Getting Dashiell Hammett Et Al -- Sedition in Pittsburgh -- Harassing a labor radical -- McCarthy's fall: Assailing Eisenhower -- McCarthy and his Nemesis -- Defiance to the bitter end -- Condemned -- Liberals seek cover: Communist Control Act -- Measure of redness -- End of the Lattimore affaire -- Freedom for Steven Nelson -- Matusow confesses -- Fifth vindicated -- Smith act disabled -- HUAC's wing's clipped -- Right to travel abroad affirmed -- Faulk breaks the blacklist -- Afterward: Ciontelpro in the flesh -- Breaking and entering -- Tom Huston's try -- J. Edgar Hoover still sees red.