Nightmare in red the McCarthy era in perspective

This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-wa...

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Main Author: Fried, Richard M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1991, 1991
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-war periods
Item Description:Originally published: 1990
Physical Description:ix, 243 p.
ISBN:9780199853724