McCarthyism, The Great American Red Scare by Fried

McCarthyism, The Great American Red Scare by Fried

Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this book provides a detailed account of an extraordinary period of time when Americans were routinely persecuted because they were suspected of being insufficiently patriotic in the struggle against Communism, in particular, 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. Documenting both the persecuted and the persecutors, this book is the definitive reader on McCarthyism, and the American Red Scare, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to to the mid 1960s.

Fried's book is a precise historical account of the period of the McCarthy witch-hunts from the late 1940s to the 1960sThe News Line this is a useful collection for any teacher looking to enliven a course on the making of Cold War America. Iwan Morgan, London Guildhall University, American Politics Review, no 37, March 1998

Fried, Albert: -

Albert Fried is Professor of history at the State University of New York, Purchase. He has published many books and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent works are Communism in America; McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare; and The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America.

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ISBN 13	9780195097016
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Title	McCarthyism, The Great American Red Scare
Author	Fried
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	1996-12-12
Number of pages	240
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