Nightmare in red : the McCarthy era in perspective /

This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-wa...

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Main Author: Fried, Richard M., 1941- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
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Summary:This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-war periods.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 243 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
ISBN:9780199853724
019985372X
9780199763191
0199763194