Many are the crimes
Subtitle: McCarthyism in America
By: Ellen Schrecker.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
Subjects: McCarthy, Joseph, -- 1908-1957; Communism -- United States -- History; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Subversive activities -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "The McCarthy era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. In the name of National Security, most Americans - liberal and conservative alike - supported the anti-Communist crusade that ruined so many careers, marriages, and even lives. Now Ellen Schrecker gives us the first complete post-Cold War account of McCarthyism.

Many Are the Crimes is a frightening history of an era that still resonates with us today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Little, Brown, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Antecedents -- ch. 1.; title: "We were sitting ducks": the world of American communism -- -- ch. 2.; title: "Red-baiters, Inc.": the development of an anticommunist network -- -- ch. 3.; title: "In the interest of national security": anticommunism and the Roosevelt administration -- -- pt. 2.; title: Representations -- -- ch. 4.; title: "They are everywhere": the communist image -- -- ch. 5.; title: "Great and total danger": the nature of the communist threat -- -- pt. 3.; title: Instruments -- -- ch. 6.; title: "Job for professionals": the FBI and anticommunism -- -- ch. 7.; title: "In the gutter": the anticommunism of Joe McCarthy -- -- ch. 8.; title: "Badge of infamy": anticommunist economic sanctions and political dismissals -- -- pt. 4.; title: Interconnections -- -- ch. 9.; title: "How red is a valley": Clinton Jencks and his union -- -- ch. 10.; title: "Good deal of trauma": the impact of McCarthyism.