Author: SCHRECKER, ELLEN
Title: Many are the crimes. McCarthyism in America
Description: Boston, New York, Toronto, London, Little, Brown & Company, 1998, first edition. 43x241x159 mm, Paperback, met stofomslag. 573 pp.. Black & White images. ISBN/EAN: 0-316-77470-7. Conditie: Very good, small tear in dust jacket on back side. First complete post-Cold War account of McCarthyism. Drawing on newly released FBI files, private papers and interviews, Schrecker explains why McCarthyism happened and how it worked. She also assesses its long-term impact. From the dumbing-down of Hollywood and the decline of the labor movement to the war in Vietnam and the post-Watergate sleaziness of contemporary politics, McCarthyism cast a heavy shadow over America's cultural and political life..

Keywords: United States, anti-communist movements, Joseph McCarthy


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