| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 183 pages) |
| Contents |
Rise to political standing -- Red menace -- Korean War -- Nuclear credibility -- Vietnam War |
| Summary |
Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president of the United States. An American Stand: Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972 explores her engagement with the "masculine" issue of national defense. An unyielding foe of global communism, this Republican senator was the first female Cold Warrior. During the Korean War, she voiced strident anticommunist rhetoric in her newspaper column. Her energetic support for nuclear superiority in the 1950's and 1960's caused Nikita Khrushchev to describe her as "Satan in the guise of a woman." In the face of growing opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam, Smith remained committed to a clear stand against violent communist expansion. This book examines the exposition of the communist "menace" and the Cold War as a fight between good and evil without sanitization of communist leaders' ruthless actions. For Smith and many others, America's fight against global communism, despite appalling sacrifices of lives and money, made sense because they believed that communism was a vicious, expansionist system with little respect for human life and freedom. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-174) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995.
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Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995 fast |
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United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
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United States. Congress. Senate fast |
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Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History
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Women legislators -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
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Anti-communist movements
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Politics and government
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Women legislators
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
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Maine -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079921
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Maine -- Politics and government -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079922
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Maine
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678547 |
| ISBN |
9780739144442 |
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0739144448 |
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9780739144442 |
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