Anti-Communism
(see also McCarthyism & Attack on Civil Liberties)
Basics:
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
National
Security Archive
In the Library: Articles
Flacks, Dick. "Anti-communism as a product of communism," In These Times (1/11-17/89):17.
Kazin, Michael. “Gospels of anti-communism,” Nation (1/22/96): 28. Review essay on Powers’ Gospel of Anti-Communism.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima & Potsdam (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1965).
Appy, Christian (ed.) Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of US Imperialism, 1945-1966 (Amherst: U. Massachusetts, 2000).
Jenkins, Philip. The Cold War at Home: The Red Scare in Pennsylvania, 1945-1960 (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolna, 1999).
Kofsky, Frank. Harry S. Truman & the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation (NY: St. Martin's, 1993).
Lens, Sidney. The Futile Crusade: Anti-Communism as American Credo (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1964).
McAuliffe, Mary Sperling. Crisis on the Left: Cold War Politics & American Liberals, 1947-1954 (Amherst: U. of Massachusetts, 1978).
Murray, Robert K. Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920 (St. Paul: U. of Minnesota, 1955).
Powers, Richard Gid. Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism (NY: Free Press, 1996)
Rose, Lisle A. The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950 (Lawrence: U. Kansas, 1999).
In the Library: Fiction
In the Library: Poetry