McCarthy's Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935-1965
- ISBN-10
- 1349145467
- ISBN-13
- 9781349145461
- Category
- Anti-communist movements
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-11-11
- Publisher
- Macmillan International Higher Education
- Author
- M. J. Heale
Description
160, 196; Carr, House Committee on Un-American Activities, pp.50–1, 327; Richard Gid Powers, Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover (New York: Free Press, 1987), p.286; Detroit Times, 21 Feb. 1947; Detroit News, 2, 15, 28, ...
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