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Deadly farce : Harvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lichtman, Robert M., 1933-
Other Authors: Cohen, Ronald D., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Matusow, Harvey, > 1926-
Informers > United States > Biography.
Ex-communists > United States > Biography.
False testimony > United States > History > 20th century.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Communism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the informers' era
  • Birth of a party member
  • The making of an informer
  • Hitting the big time
  • Blacklists and election campaigns
  • Fruits of triumph
  • Mixed messages
  • Matusow's odyssey
  • Writing and recanting
  • At center stage
  • Paying the piper
  • Four decades of aftermath
  • Epilogue : a note on the historians.