Deadly farce
Subtitle: Harvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era
By: Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen.
Contributors: Cohen, Ronald D., 1940-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Matusow, Harvey, 1926-; Informers -- United States -- Biography; Ex-communists -- United States -- Biography; False testimony -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: The informers' era; title: Birth of a party member; title: The making of an informer; title: Hitting the big time; title: Blacklists and election campaigns; title: Fruits of triumph; title: Mixed messages; title: Matusow's odyssey; title: Writing and recanting; title: At center stage; title: Paying the piper; title: Four decades of aftermath; title: Epilogue : a note on the historians.