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Eisenhower & the anti-communist crusade

Author: Jeff Broadwater
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administration's response to America's postwar Red Scare. He looks beyond Senator Joseph McCarthy's confrontations with Eisenhower to examine the administration's own anti-Communist crusade. Exploring the complex relationship between partisan politics and cold war tensions, Broadwater demonstrates that virulent anticommunism, as well as opposition to  Read more...
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Broadwater, Jeff.
Eisenhower & the anti-communist crusade.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1992
(OCoLC)555697841
Online version:
Broadwater, Jeff.
Eisenhower & the anti-communist crusade.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1992
(OCoLC)607752354
Named Person: Dwight D Eisenhower; Dwight David Eisenhower; Dwight D Eisenhower; John Foster Dulles; Joseph McCarthy
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeff Broadwater
ISBN: 0807820156 9780807820155
OCLC Number: 24378295
Description: xiii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Other Titles: Eisenhower and the anti-communist crusade.
Responsibility: Jeff Broadwater.

Abstract:

Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administration's response to America's postwar Red Scare. He looks beyond Senator Joseph McCarthy's confrontations with Eisenhower to examine the administration's own anti-Communist crusade. Exploring the complex relationship between partisan politics and cold war tensions, Broadwater demonstrates that virulent anticommunism, as well as opposition to it, often cut across party and ideological lines. He shows, moreover, that although McCarthy and his allies captured the headlines, ultimately it was the Eisenhower administration that bore responsibility for implementing most of the nation's anti-Communist policies. The book begins with an overview of the debate over internal security following World War II and then examines Eisenhower's record on the issue. Broadwater asserts that at the outset of the cold war, Eisenhower assumed a moderate stance, defending some of McCarthy's targets and cooperating as NATO commander with European Socialist leaders. Later, as a presidential candidate under pressure from Republican conservatives, he moved steadily toward the right. Once in the Oval Office, he embraced much of the anti-Communist agenda and shared many of the McCarthyites' fears about internal security, supporting, for example, the federal employee security program and the legal persecution of the Communist party. Broadwater concludes that while Eisenhower personally despised McCarthy and eventually presided over the end of the Red Scare, the president was also a committed anti-communist who frequently displayed little concern for American civil liberties.

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