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9781604137651 | Chelsea House Pub, August 1, 2011, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author investigates this controversial and complicated early Cold War relationship...read more
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9783034302128 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 21, 2011, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.

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Product Description: Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in 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...read more
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9780739144428 | Lexington Books, October 30, 2010, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in 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.

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Product Description: When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centered on power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both...read more
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9780547443188 | Houghton Mifflin, December 14, 2009, cover price $22.00

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9780618610587 | Clarion Books, December 14, 2009, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods.

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Provides a history of the American anticommunist hysteria fueled by the Russian Revolution of 1917, as well as by the Cold War during the McCarthy era.
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9780737729153 | Greenhaven Pr, August 13, 2005, cover price $34.70 | About this edition: Provides a history of the American anticommunist hysteria fueled by the Russian Revolution of 1917, as well as by the Cold War during the McCarthy era.

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Product Description: Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place...read more
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9780231129527 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism.

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9780231129534 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 31, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism.

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Product Description: "This book is one of the most outstanding of recent years in all the history of U.S. labor, and nearly alone in tackling the complexities at the cross-section of Left politics and unionism." ––Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in American Civilization, Brown University, and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era...read more
By Robert W. Cherny (editor), William Issel (editor) and Kieran Walsh Taylor (editor)
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9780813534022 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: "This book is one of the most outstanding of recent years in all the history of U.

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In the follow-up to Slander, a leading conservative thinker offers a scathing critique of the patriotism of the American left, re-examining the history of the Cold War, including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Gulf War, and the current war on terrorism, explaining why liberals have been wrong in their political analyses and policy prescriptions. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.
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9781400050307 | 1 edition (Crown Pub, June 1, 2003), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Critiques the patriotism of the American left, re-examining the history of the Cold War, the Gulf War, and the war on terrorism, explaining why liberals have been wrong in their political analyses and policy prescriptions.

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9781400050321 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, October 1, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Critiques the patriotism of the American left, re-examining the history of the Cold War, the Gulf War, and the war on terrorism, explaining why liberals have been wrong in their political analyses and policy prescriptions.

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9780739310816 | Abridged edition (Random House, January 1, 2004), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: “Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate.

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Product Description: This popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the US. The volume's 95-page essay follows the campaign against domestic subversion from its origins in the 1939s, through its escalation in the 1940s , to its decline in the 1950s...read more
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9780312294250 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 5, 2002), cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the US.
9780312102777 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1994, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This documentary history on McCarthyism contains two sections.

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9780312393199, titled "Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents" | 2 edition (Bedford/st Martins, November 9, 2001), cover price $19.20 | About this edition: Incorporating important recent scholarship, this popular supplement combines a comprehensive essay on the history of McCarthyism with compelling documents that trace the course of anti-Communist furor in the U.
9789990057614, titled "Age Of Mccarthyism: A Brief History With Documents" | Bedford/st Martins, November 1, 2001, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: An incisive survey of three Louisiana politicians and how the 1951-52 elections forever changed their lives. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781565548688 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An incisive survey of three Louisiana politicians and how the 1951-52 elections forever changed their lives.

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Product Description: Not long ago, Communists seemed to be everywhere: among our politicians, neighbors, favorite actors--even in our drinking water. Red Scared! is a wry tour of the frosty decades of Soviet and American adversity, when anti-Communist hysteria produced fairly hysterical pop-culture items...read more
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9780811828871 | Chronicle Books Llc, July 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Not long ago, Communists seemed to be everywhere: among our politicians, neighbors, favorite actors--even in our drinking water.

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9780820440507 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: The McCarthy era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. In the name of National Security, most Americans--liberal and conservative alike--supported the anti-Communist crusade that ruined so many careers, marriages, and even lives...read more
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9780691048703 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 9, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The McCarthy era was a bad time for freedom in America.

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9781563841491 | Huntington House Pub, August 1, 1998, cover price $12.99

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A finalist for the National Book Award presents a painstakingly researched, finely balanced portrait of the onetime Soviet agent who became a prime exponent of anti-Communism with his pivotal role in the Alger Hiss. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9780394585598 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Featuring a full account of the Alger Hiss perjury case, a biography of Hiss' accuser traces Chambers' life from his years as a Soviet agent to his role in the postwar anti-Communist movement

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9780375751455 | Modern Library, May 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Featuring a full account of the Alger Hiss perjury case, a biography of Hiss' accuser traces Chambers' life from his years as a Soviet agent to his role in the postwar anti-Communist movement

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A noted scholar of the period offers an exhaustive analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon with the benefit of newly released FBI files, private papers, and interviews, tracing the inexorable machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion. (view table of contents)
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9780316774703 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1998), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Offers an analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon, tracing the machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion

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Red Scare is a remarkable document of the anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1940's and altered forever the American political landscape, a time when one's beliefs and associations could lead to financial ruin and a prison cell. (view table of contents)
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9780735100176 | Replica Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: A portrayal of the Cold War at home features stories of ordinary men and women who risked everything for their beliefs and of those that hunted them down.

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Product Description: Tracing the evolution of anti-communism from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of communism in recent years, this book challenges the basic understanding of the nature of anti-communism. It draws connections between anti-communism as an internal American control mechanism, and anti-communism as an instrument of foreign policy, relating these aspects in turn to a study of psychology, national mythology and culture...read more
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9780465003648, titled "Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America" | Basic Books, January 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: What amounted to an American civil religion for nearly half a century was at least as much a spiritual as a political phenomenon.

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9780304370481 | Cassell, December 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Tracing the evolution of anti-communism from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of communism in recent years, this book challenges the basic understanding of the nature of anti-communism.
9780304700486, titled "Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America" | Cassell, October 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Tracing the evolution of anti-communism from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of communism in recent years, this book challenges the basic understanding of the nature of anti-communism.

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Product Description: Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. It discusses the turbulent years during which Americans were routinely persecuted because they were suspected of being insufficiently patriotic or too sympathetic to the Soviet Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Albert Fried (editor)
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9780195097016 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 12, 1996, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s.

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9780891010883 | Univ of Maine Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $26.95

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9780891010890 | Univ of Maine Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $42.01

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Product Description: Gorge Orwell introduced Bert Jolis to Arthur Koestler as "one who is much to our way of thinking." Jolis epitomized their sense of outrage at the silence of Western intellectuals in the face of Communism -- a view that frequently brought him into conflict with the establishment as an intelligence officer with the OSS during World War II and the Cold War...read more
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9780880333641 | East European Monographs, December 1, 1996, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Gorge Orwell introduced Bert Jolis to Arthur Koestler as "one who is much to our way of thinking.

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Amazon.com Review: In 1953 the U.S. Air Force attempted to discharge a young lieutenant because his father may have read a communist magazine and his sister was a left-wing radical. They bit off more than they could chew. The producer of Edward R...read more
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9781879094536 | Momentum Books Llc, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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A biography of the Wisconsin Senator whose questionable methods as a 'Communist witch-hunter' brought him fame in the decade after World War II and led to his eventual censure by the United States Senate.
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9781562949174 | Millbrook Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $23.90 | About this edition: A biography of the Wisconsin senator whose questionable methods as a 'Communist witch-hunter' brought him fame in the decade after World War II and led to his downfall

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Product Description: As one of a handful of American scholars allowed to review documents in newly opened Soviet archives, John Haynes has used fresh evidence to shed new light on the United States' confrontation with communism at home. In a succinct survey, Haynes traces the buildup of the American Communist party (CPUSA) in the twenties and thirties, focuses on the heyday of popular anticommunism from 1945 to 1960, and follows the relative decline of anticommunism as a political issue in the sixties and seventies...read more
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9781566630900 | Ivan R Dee, February 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom.

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9781566630917 | Ivan R Dee, June 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As one of a handful of American scholars allowed to review documents in newly opened Soviet archives, John Haynes has used fresh evidence to shed new light on the United States' confrontation with communism at home.

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Product Description: This remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape offers firsthand accounts of the 20 years of anti-Communist repression instigated by the U.S. Government in 1947, during which millions of Americans were investigated...read more
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9780393037326 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A portrayal of the Cold War at home features stories of ordinary men and women who risked everything for their beliefs and of those that hunted them down

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9780380727117 | Avon Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape offers firsthand accounts of the 20 years of anti-Communist repression instigated by the U.

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