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Attorney General’s List
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Big Red Scare
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CIO
CIO Union
civil liberties suppression
Cold War era political climate
Communist
Communist Control Act
Communist Party USA
CPUSA
CPUSA Leader
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Federal Fair Labor Standards Act
HUAC Hearing
HUAC Investigation
ideological conformity
IWW Hall
J. Edgar Hoover
labor union purges
Lusk Committee
Mao Tse Tung
McCarthy
McCarthyism
Militant CIO
Military Junta
Minute Women
New Deal
Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission
political repression history
postwar American politics
red menace
Red Scare
Red Scare Anti-communism
Truman's Loyalty Program
Truman’s Loyalty Program
United Soviet States
USSR
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415841023
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anti-communist sentiment in the postwar United States, exploring the factors that facilitated McCarthyism and assessing the long-term effects on US politics and culture. McCarthyism:The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare offers an analysis of the ways in which fear of communism manifested in daily American life, giving readers a rich understanding of this era of postwar American history. Including primary documents and a companion website, Michaels’ text presents a fully integrated picture of McCarthyism and the cultural climate of the United States in the aftermath of the Second World War.
