Nightmare in Red
Nightmare in Red
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Summary
Attempts to set "McCarthyism" in its historical context, covering both the political ascent of Joseph McCarthy and the rise of an extremist anti-communism movement in the USA from the 1930s until its lingering demise in the early 1960s.
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Nightmare in Red by Richard M Fried
This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-war periods. Along the way we meet important actors in the Red-baiting drama, including Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood Ten, and, of course, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Fried, however, also documents the more sweeping and less public effects of McCarthyism on thousands of people, from teachers and lawyers to washroom attendants forced to take loyalty tests. As Fried shows, these 'insignificant' stories are perhaps the strongest testament to the social and political climate which terrorized many ordinary citizens during the McCarthy years.
`Mr Fried writes ably, scrupulously presenting both sides of every issue; no-one will ever do a better six page precis of the Alger Hiss case'The New York Times Book Review
`A richly detailed history of America's ongoing frenzy of fear over communism.'Book World
`well-researched book ... Anyone interested in this short span of American political history will find this erudite book both interesting and absorbing.' The News Line
`A richly detailed history of America's ongoing frenzy of fear over communism.'Book World
`well-researched book ... Anyone interested in this short span of American political history will find this erudite book both interesting and absorbing.' The News Line
Author of Men Against McCarthy (1976)
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780195043617 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195043618 |
| Title | Nightmare in Red |
| Author | Richard M Fried |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1991-07-11 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |