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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jenkins, Philip, 1952- Cold War at home. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)607374241 Online version: Jenkins, Philip, 1952- Cold War at home. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)609887683 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Jenkins |
ISBN: | 0807824984 9780807824986 080784781X 9780807847817 |
OCLC Number: | 40762706 |
Description: | xiv, 271 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Haunting Pennsylvania: the Communist tradition -- ch. 3. New Americanism, 1944-1950 -- ch. 4. Red scare rampant, 1950-1953 -- ch. 5. Saving labor -- ch. 6. Teaching Americanism: the purge of the teaching profession -- ch. 7. Struggle for the ethnic communities -- ch. 8. Constructing the beast: the churches and anti-Communism -- ch. 9. Coming in from the Cold War, 1956-1968 -- ch. 10. Consequences. |
Responsibility: | Philip Jenkins. |
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"The Cold War at Home" is a superb book-something that Cold War historians have needed for years.David M. Oshinsky, Rutgers University The strength of his book is in its provocative details, hints for those unraveling theoretical puzzles about the far Right and fascism."International Labor and Working-Class History" A very useful and comprehensive account that is especially effective in pointing out the bipartisan basis of the Pennsylvania red scare ."Journal of American History" This is an important book for anyone interested in American anti-communism and the domestic history of the Cold War."American Studies" A significant contribution to understanding Cold War internal security politics."Choice" "The Cold War at Home" is a superb book--something that Cold War historians have needed for years.David M. Oshinsky, Rutgers University "The strength of his book is in its provocative details, hints for those unraveling theoretical puzzles about the far Right and fascism."International Labor and Working-Class History"" ""The Cold War at Home" is a superb book--something that Cold War historians have needed for years.David M. Oshinsky, Rutgers University" Read more...


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