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McCarthyism

(see also Attack on Civil Liberties, Anti-Communism, FBI, American Radicalism)


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Basics:

On the Web: Articles

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.



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