Title The second Red Scare and the unmaking of the New Deal left / Landon R.Y. Storrs

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) : illustrations Series Politics and society in twentieth-century America Politics and society in twentieth-century America. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Selected Government Officials Investigated under the Federal Loyalty Program -- The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. When the Old Left Was Young ... and Went to Washington -- Chapter 2. Allegations of Disloyalty at Labor and Consumer Agencies, 1939-43 -- Chapter 3. "Pinks in Minks": The Antifeminism of the Old Right -- Chapter 4. The Loyalty Investigations of Mary Dublin Keyserling and Leon Keyserling -- Chapter 5. Secrets and Self-Reinvention: The Making of Cold War Liberalism -- Chapter 6. "A Soul-Searing Process": Trauma in the Civil Service -- Chapter 7. Loyalty Investigations and the "End of Reform" -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Loyalty Case Records and Selection -- Appendix 2. Case Summaries -- Appendix 3. Chronology of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program -- Appendix 4. Statistics of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- Backmatter Summary The loyalty investigations triggered by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented women and men who had entered government service during the Great Depression seeking to promote social democracy as a means to economic reform. Their influence over New Deal policymaking and their alliances with progressive labor and consumer movements elicited a powerful reaction from conservatives, who accused them of being subversives. Landon Storrs draws on newly declassified records of the federal employee loyalty program--created in response to fears that Communists were infiltrating the U.S. government--to reveal how disloyalty charges were used to silence these New Dealers and discredit their policies. Because loyalty investigators rarely distinguished between Communists and other leftists, many noncommunist leftists were forced to leave government or deny their political views. Storrs finds that loyalty defendants were more numerous at higher ranks of the civil service than previously thought, and that many were women, or men with accomplished leftist wives. Uncovering a forceful left-feminist presence in the New Deal, she shows how opponents on the Right exploited popular hostility to powerful women and their "effeminate" spouses. The loyalty program not only destroyed many promising careers, it prohibited discussion of social democratic policy ideas in government circles, narrowing the scope of political discourse to this day. Through a gripping narrative based on remarkable new sources, Storrs demonstrates how the Second Red Scare undermined the reform potential of the New Deal and crippled the American welfare state Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century New Deal, 1933-1939. Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Criminal investigation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century Allegiance -- United States -- History -- 20th century Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century New Deal. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. New Deal, 1933-1939 Allegiance Anti-communist movements Conservatism Employees Employees -- Political activity Internal security Liberalism Politics and government Antikommunismus New Deal Anticommunisme. Vervolgingen. Ambtenaren. New Deal. Links (politiek) SUBJECT United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography United States -- Officials and employees -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140464 Subject United States USA Verenigde Staten. Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012014277 ISBN 9781400845255 1400845254

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