Title: The age of McCarthyism :
Authors: Schrecker, Ellen.
Date: 2002
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's,
Physical description: xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: The age of McCarthyism. The American Communist Party ; The growth of the anti-Communist network ; Communism and national security : the menace emerges ; The state steps in : setting the anti-Communist agenda ; Communists in government and the big spy cases ; Atomic espionage ; The Loyalty-Security Program ; The assault on the Communist Party ; The destruction of the Communist fronts and unions ; Congressional committees and unfriendly witnesses ; Red-baiting and careerism : Joseph McCarthy at work ; Congressional investigations and the "loss" of China ; Anticommunism at the state and local levels ; Blacklists and other economic sanctions ; Liberals and the struggle against McCarthyism ; The legacy of McCarthyism -- The documents. The world of American communism : party members talk about their experiences -- From the Communist Party's perspective : William Z. Foster looks at the world in 1947 -- The communist menace : an American Legion view --^ To quarantine communism : J. Edgar Hoover speaks to the American people -- Communist spies in the State Department : the emergence of the Hiss case -- Atomic espionage and the Rosenberg case -- The Truman administration deals with the Communist menace : the 1947 Loyalty-Security Program -- A political test for employment : the Loyalty-Security Program in operation -- Guilt by designation : the Attorney General's list -- Communism in court : excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party's eleven top leaders -- Outlawing the Communist Party : the Supreme Court upholds the Smith Act -- A liberal opposes anti-Communist legislation : Truman vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950 -- Purging the labor movement : the CIO expels its left-wing unions -- The dilemma of an unfriendly witness : Lillian Hellman takes the Fifth Amendment -- "Are you now--?" : HUAC investigates Hollywood -- "I have in my hand--^ " : Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that there are Communists in the State Department -- The Hollywood blacklist begins : studio heads fire the Hollywood Ten -- The blacklisters' Bible : Red Channels -- The blacklist in operation : testimony from the John Henry Faulk Trial -- Unfriendly witnesses and their lawyers : the HUAC testimony of Robert Treuhaft -- Heresy and conspiracy : a Cold War liberal view of the Communist threat -- A liberal deplores the witch-hunt : Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on "The Black Silence of Fear" -- Appendixes. Glossary ; A McCarthyism chronology (1917-1976) ; Interpreting McCarthyism : a bibliographical essay.
Subject headings (LCSH): Anti-communist movements--United States--History--Sources.; Anti-communist movements--United States--History.; Communism--United States--History.; Internal security--United States--History--20th century.; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.; Subversive activities--United States--History--20th century.; United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.