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Nightmare in red : the McCarthy era in perspective

Author: Richard M Fried
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991, ©1990.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Providing the most complete history of the rise and fall of the phe-nomenon known as McCarthyism, Nightmare in Red offers a riveting and comprehensive account of the many different people who became embroiled in the anti-communist fervor of mid-century America. It traces the second Red Scare's antecedents from the 1930s, to the early years of the Cold War, through the peak of the McCarthy era, and beyond McCarthy's  Read more...
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Named Person: Joseph McCarthy; Joseph McCarthy
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard M Fried
ISBN: 0195043618 : 9780195043617
OCLC Number: 24764284
Notes: First Oxford University Press printing, 1991. Includes index.
Description: ix, 243 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Richard M. Fried.

Abstract:

Providing the most complete history of the rise and fall of the phe-nomenon known as McCarthyism, Nightmare in Red offers a riveting and comprehensive account of the many different people who became embroiled in the anti-communist fervor of mid-century America. It traces the second Red Scare's antecedents from the 1930s, to the early years of the Cold War, through the peak of the McCarthy era, and beyond McCarthy's censure to the decline of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1960s.

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