The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents

ISBN-10
0312102771
ISBN-13
9780312102777
Category
History
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Ellen Schrecker

Description

This popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the US. The volume's 95-page essay follows the campaign against domestic subversion from its origins in the 1939s, through its escalation in the 1940s, to its decline in the 1950s. The second part includes more than 47 original documents (including 6 new sources) -- congressional transcripts, FBI reports, speeches and letters-- that chronicle the anti-Communist crusade. The essays and documents have been thoroughly updated to reflect new scholarship and recently revealed archival evidence of soviet spying in the US. Also included are headnotes, photographs, a glossary, a chronology of McCarthyism, a revised bibliographical essay, and an index.

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