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Author Schrecker, Ellen.

Title Many are the crimes : McCarthyism in America / Ellen Schrecker
Edition First edition
Published Boston : Little, Brown, [1998]
©1998

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Description xviii, 573 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Ch. 1. "We Were Sitting Ducks": The World of American Communism -- Ch. 2. "Red-Baiters, Inc.": The Development of an Anticommunist Network -- Ch. 3. "In the Interest of National Security": Anticommunism and the Roosevelt Administration -- Ch. 4. "They Are Everywhere": The Communist Image -- Ch. 5. "A Great and Total Danger": The Nature of the Communist Threat -- Ch. 6. "A Job for Professionals": The FBI and Anticommunism -- Ch. 7. "In the Gutter": The Anticommunism of Joe McCarthy -- Ch. 8. "A Badge of Infamy": Anticommunist Economic Sanctions and Political Dismissals -- Ch. 9. "How Red Is a Valley": Clinton Jencks and His Union -- Ch. 10. "A Good Deal of Trauma": The Impact of McCarthyism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-429) and index
Subject McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History.
Communism -- United States -- History.
Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subversive activities -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
LC no. 97042269
ISBN 0316774707