McCarthyism
(see also Attack on Civil Liberties, Anti-Communism, FBI, American Radicalism)
The
Bad Old Days at the FBI. NY Times (6/16/02). J. Edgar Hoover &
the firing of University of California President Clark Kerr in 1967.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Browning, Michael. "After 50 years, questions still linger about Rosenbergs' execution," Santa Cruz Sentinel (6/19/03):A1
Buhle, Paul. "Halting McCarthyism: the Stamler case in history," Monthly Review 51,5(10/99):44-49.
Dowd, Doug. “Cry ‘havoc!’ & let slip the dogs of war: McCarthyism, Korea, & other nightmares,” Monthly Review 48, 11 (4/97):32-42.
Struik, Dirk. "The Struik case of 1951," Monthly Review (1/93):31-47.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Barzman, Norma. The Red & the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate (NY: Nation Books, 2003).
Belfrage, Sally. Un-American Activities: A Memoir of the Fifties (NY: HarperCollins, 1994).
Bristol, James E. McCarthyism: The Seed is In Us (Wallingford PA: Pendle Hill, 1954).
Cook, Fred J.The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss (NY: Morrow, 1958).
__________. The Nightmare Decade: The Life & Times of Senator Joe McCarthy (NY: Random House, 1971).
Doherty, Thomas. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, & American Culture (NY: Columbia, 2003).
Ewald, William B. McCarthyism & Consensus (Lanham MD: U. Press of America, 1986).
Fariello, Griffin. Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition, an Oral History (NY: Norton, 1995).
Fried, Albert (ed.) McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare, a Documentary History (NY: Oxford, 1997).
Hellman, Lillian. Scoundrel Time (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976).
Herman, Arthur. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life & Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator (NY: Free Press, 2000).
Landis, Mark. Joseph McCarthy: The Politics of Chaos (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna U, 1987).
Leab, Daniel J. "I Was a Communist for the FBI:" The Unhapy Life & Times of Matt Cvetic (University Park: Pennsylvania State U. , 2003)
McCarthy, Joseph. McCarthyism: The Fight for America: Documented Answers to Questions Asked by Friend & Foe (NY: Devin-Adair, 1952).
McGilligan, Patrick & Paul Buhle. Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (NY: St. Martin's, 1997).
Morone, James. Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (New Haven: Yale, 2003). Engaging & informative though surprisingly ahistorical & secularist exploration of moral tradition in radicalism left & right.
Navasky, Victor. Naming Names [1980] (NY: Hill & Wang, 2003).
Reeves, Thomas C. (ed.) McCarthyism (3rd ed.; Malabar FL: Krieger, 1989).
Taylor, Telford. Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955).
Theoharis, Athan G. & J.S. Cox. The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover & the Great American Inquisition (Philadelphia: Temple, 1988).
Tuck, Jim. McCarthyism & New York's Hearst Press: A Study of Roles in the Witch Hunt (Lanham MD: U. Press of America, 1995).
Walker, Doris. McCarthyism & Foreign Policy (Berkeley: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, 1980).
Werth, Barry. The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (NY: Nan Talese/Doubleday, 2001).
Ybarra, Michael J. Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran & the Great American Communist Hunt (?: Steerforth, 2004).
In the Library: Fiction
Doctorow, E.L. The Book of Daniel (NY: Random House, 1971).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio:
Film & Video:
"Angels in America" [2003], dir. Mike Nichols, 352m. In video stores. Roy Cohn encounters ghost of Ethel Rosenberg at his life's end in 1985.
"Joseph McCarthy" [198?], dir. Alan Landsburg, 27m. From CRM McGraw-Hill Films.
"McCarthy: Death of a Witchhunter" [1975], dir. Emile d'Antonio, 55m. Documentary.