About this title: 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. Along the way we meet important actors in the Red-baiting drama, including Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, the Hollywood Ten, and, of course, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Fried, however, also documents the more sweeping ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991-03-28
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 3/28/1991
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991-03-28
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
Description: Very Good. Clean trade paperback with light usage wear. Surface scratches in front cover with curl and slight creases. Tight and square with no spine creases. Oxford University Press, New York, 1991. ix, 243 pages. Endnotes, bibliography, index. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991-03-28
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 0195043618. 256 pp. Edgewear. Some margin notations in first chapter. A comprehensive look at thr rise and fall of McCartyism, from its early roots in the 1930's through the Cold War, a finally beyond McCarty's censure to the decline of the house committee in the 60's.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 256 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, USA
ISBN-13:9780195043600ISBN:019504360X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780195043600ISBN:019504360X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991-03-28
ISBN-13:9780195043617ISBN:0195043618
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