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Product Description: Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare...read more
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9780807835418 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 21, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism.

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Product Description: Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administration's response to America's postwar Red Scare. He looks beyond Senator Joseph McCarthy's confrontations with Eisenhower to examine the administration's own anti-Communist crusade...read more
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9780807820155 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administration's response to America's postwar Red Scare.

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9780807865132 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administration's response to America's postwar Red Scare.

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Product Description: In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian Mary Jane Keeney and her husband Philip, who had been called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to account for friendships with suspected communists, memberships in communist fronts, and authorship of articles that had been published in leftist periodicals...read more
By Rosalee Mcreynolds (editor)
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9780275994488, titled "The Librarian Spies: Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage" | Praeger Security Intl, March 20, 2009, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors.

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Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9780405099571 | Revised edition (Arno Pr, March 1, 1977), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

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9781430491033 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 30, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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This collection allows the reader to experience the freewheeling Bob Avakian in the process of re-envisioning the communist project. His cutting-edge vision and theory focus up on issues at the center of current philosophical debate--how humans acquire truth, whether truth exists, the role of art and imagination in being human, a Marxist view of the Enlightenment, summing up the history and experience of socialist countries, and the role of dissent in a vibrant society. Original.
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9780976023630 | Insight Pr Inc, July 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This collection allows the reader to experience the freewheeling Bob Avakian in the process of re-envisioning the communist project.

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Product Description: Hide in Plain Sight offers a powerful examination of the effects of Hollywood's blacklist era, taking up the question of how blacklistees fared after they were driven out of the mainstream. A good number entered careers in television, with many finding work in children's and family programs, writing for shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle, Lassie, and Flipper...read more
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9781403961440 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, August 23, 2003), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Discusses the Hollywood blacklist period, tracing the careers of blacklisted writers who went on to work in television or eventually returned to film.

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9781403966841 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 15, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Hide in Plain Sight offers a powerful examination of the effects of Hollywood's blacklist era, taking up the question of how blacklistees fared after they were driven out of the mainstream.

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A portrait of Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant Elizabeth Bentley describes her work at the head of two of Russia's most productive spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life. Reprint.
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9780060185190 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant describes her work at the head of two Russian spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life.

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9780060959739 | Reprint edition (Perennial, August 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant describes her work at the head of two Russian spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life.

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9781417702305 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant describes her work at the head of two Russian spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life.

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Product Description: In this definitive history of the evolution of the Communist party in America—from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s—Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party, its shifting policies, and its secret as well as its open activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780374923426 | Octagon Books, April 1, 1977, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The definitive history of the evolution of the Communist party in America, from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s.

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9780765805133 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, May 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this definitive history of the evolution of the Communist party in America—from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s—Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party, its shifting policies, and its secret as well as its open activities.
9780929587004 | Ivan R Dee, April 1, 1989, cover price $24.90 | About this edition: In this definitive history of the evolution of the Communist party in America—from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s—Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party, its shifting policies, and its secret as well as its open activities.

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Product Description: With a New Afterword by the Author“An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense.” —Studs TerkelHalf a century later, the investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House Committee on Un-American Activities still haunts the public conscience...read more
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9780670503933 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Unabashedly explores the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklisting from the perspective of the informers and cooperators, relying on oral history, interviews, and research to answer the question why they succumbed to pressure

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9780809001835 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, April 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: With a New Afterword by the Author“An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness.
9780714539089 | John Calder Pub Ltd, May 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: With a New Afterword by the Author“An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness.
9780140152357 | Rev sub edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1991), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: With a New Afterword by the Author“An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness.

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A revealing portrait of one of the most important spies uncovered during the Cold War introduces readers to Elizabeth Bently, a Vassar educated WASP who sold secrets to the Soviets and then, when Russian spies were trying to eliminate her, fled into the arms of the FBI. (Biography)
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9780807827390 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Introduces readers to Elizabeth Bentley, a Vassar educated WASP who sold secrets to the Soviets and then, when Russian spies were trying to eliminate her, fled into the arms of the FBI.

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The author recounts the forces that shaped his life, describes his involvement with the Communist Party, and explains the reasons for his identification of Alger Hiss as a Communist agent
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9780895265715 | Gateway Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The author recounts the forces that shaped his life, describes his involvement with the Communist Party, and explains the reasons for his identification of Alger Hiss as a Communist agent

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9780895261571 | 50 anv edition (Regnery Pub, July 1, 2002), cover price $19.95
9780895267894 | Reissue edition (Regnery Pub, September 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author recounts the forces that shaped his life, describes his involvement with the Communist Party, and explains the reasons for his identification of Alger Hiss as a Communist agent
9780819135544 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Amer, October 1, 1983), cover price $13.75 | About this edition: "Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies.

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9780786100545 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: An autobiographical memoir, written just after Chambers confessed to his earlier affiliation with the Communist Party and testified against his former friend and comrade, Alger Hiss, in perhaps the most celebrated espionage trial of the century.
9780786100552 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: An autobiographical memoir, written just after Chambers confessed to his earlier affiliation with the Communist Party and testified against his former friend and comrade, Alger Hiss, in perhaps the most celebrated espionage trial of the century.

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Product Description: Commies is a brilliant memoir of growing up in the culture of radicalism. But it also about the hard decisions faced by those professing a radical faith. For Radosh himself, the crisis came when he concluded in his authoritative book on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that the couple (in whose behalf he had demonstrated as a boy) had indeed been guilty of spying...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781893554054 | Encounter Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Commies is a brilliant memoir of growing up in the culture of radicalism.

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9781893554528 | Encounter Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Commies is a brilliant memoir of growing up in the culture of radicalism.

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Product Description: The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a “dignified” manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781560253686 | Nation Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC’s treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers.

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Product Description: "Theodore Draper is one of the two or three most cogent and thoughtful social historians in the United States today. Everything he writes merits close attention." -Irving Howe "Theodore Draper is a historian of today's world in a class by himself-formidably equipped with learning and experience, fearless in attacking the naivet of the left and the cruelty of the right...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780765807137 | Transaction Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Theodore Draper is one of the two or three most cogent and thoughtful social historians in the United States today.

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Product Description: Marxism and Culture attempts a history of the approach to literature as practiced by the Communist Party of the United States during the 1930s. It also attempts to set aside the distortion of cultural cold war which routinely labeled anything communist as tendentious and tainted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780804692557 | Associated Faculty Pr Inc, June 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Marxism and Culture attempts a history of the approach to literature as practiced by the Communist Party of the United States during the 1930's.

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9780595127511 | Authors Choice Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Marxism and Culture attempts a history of the approach to literature as practiced by the Communist Party of the United States during the 1930s.

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Product Description: IF you expect to get all the knowledge you need to fight and prevent osteoporosis from your doctor, think again! This book is a must read for ANYONE, irrespective of age and sex. Osetoporosis is a slow disease, developing over decades without obvious systems...read more
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9781893157002 | Bridger House Pub, December 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: IF you expect to get all the knowledge you need to fight and prevent osteoporosis from your doctor, think again!

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9781893157033 | Bridger House Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.01

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An account of the Hiss-Chambers confrontation provides answers to the question of Hiss's guilt and reexamines long-held political attitudes (view table of contents)
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9780394495460 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1978, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Based on five years of extensive research, this definitive account of the Hiss-Chambers confrontation provides conclusive answers to the question of Hiss's guilt and reexamines long-held political attitudes that stemmed from the case

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9780679773382 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, June 1, 1997), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: An account of the Hiss-Chambers confrontation provides answers to the question of Hiss's guilt and reexamines long-held political attitudes

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9780533118199 | Vantage Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $8.95

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Product Description: A necessary book with a necessary goal - stressing the importance of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and citing the dangers of what happens when its cherished tradition is jeopardized. In the name of combating Communism liberties were jettisoned, while the art of stool pigeon information dissemination reached a feverish pitch during Hollywood's blacklist period beginning shortly after World War Two with the advent of the Cold War...read more
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9780879100810 | Limelight Editions, June 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A necessary book with a necessary goal - stressing the importance of the First Amendment of the U.

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Product Description: Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge...read more
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9781566631051 | Reprint edition (Ivan R Dee, March 1, 1996), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States.

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Documents Senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign against alleged communists from 1950 to 1953
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9780870001109 | Crown Pub, January 1, 1977, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: An objective study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen.

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9780895264725, titled "McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning" | Reissue edition (Gateway Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Documents Senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign against alleged communists from 1950 to 1953

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9780252015595 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $34.95

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9780252065255 | Univ of Illinois Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $21.00

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9780848812324, titled "None Dare Call It Conspiracy." | Amereon Ltd, May 1, 1995, cover price $26.95
9780899666617 | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1972), cover price $27.95

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9780945001294 | Reprint edition (G S G & Associates Pub, December 1, 1971), cover price $15.00
9780686057376 | Concord Books, February 1, 1971, cover price $11.00

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Product Description: In the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted support from a wide range of liberal and radical intellectuals, partly in response to domestic politics, and also in opposition to the growing power of fascism abroad. The Long War, a social history of these intellectuals and their political institutions, tells the story of the rift that developed among the groups loosely organized under the umbrella of the Party—representing communist supporters of the People’s Front and those who would become anti-Stalinists—and the evolution of that rift into a generational divide that would culminate in the liberal anti-communism of the post-World War II era...read more
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9780822315261 | Duke Univ Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: In the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted support from a wide range of liberal and radical intellectuals, partly in response to domestic politics, and also in opposition to the growing power of fascism abroad.

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9780822315247 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the early 1930s, the American Communist Party attracted support from a wide range of liberal and radical intellectuals, partly in response to domestic politics, and also in opposition to the growing power of fascism abroad.

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