Resisting McCarthyism
Subtitle: to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath
By: Bob Blauner.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804759229
Subjects: McCarthy, Joseph, -- 1908-1957; University of California (1868-1952) -- History; Loyalty oaths -- California -- History -- 20th century; Academic freedom -- California -- History -- 20th century; Anti-communist movements -- California -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953; United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: McCarthyism and the crisis of liberalism; title: Anticommunism and academic freedom between two wars. A most contradictory history; title: From world war to cold war; title: UCLA and the origins of the oath; title: Faculty divided. The faculty resists Sproul's oath; title: New leaders : Caughey, Lehman, and the NASE; title: The "sign or get out" ultimatum; title: From the great double cross to the alumni compromise; title: The hearings at Berkeley; title: The hearings at UCLA; title: War in Korea and victory in the courts. Korea changed everything; title: Nonsigners fired and go to court; title: Warren's new oath : worse than Sproul's?; title: McCarthy defeated, but his -ism lingers on; title: How the oath changed a university, a nation, and peoples' lives; title: Epilogue : from the loyalty oath to the free speech movement.