Wald wirtes of the group's efforts in the 1930s to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement and the aftermath of that in the post war intellectual world.
The anticommunist crusade of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its legendary director J. Edgar Hoover during the McCarthy era and the Cold War has attracted much attention from historians during the last decades, but little has been known about the Bureau's political activ…
Annotation This compelling volume, written by the distinguished diplomatic historian Thomas G. Paterson, examines why and how Americans have perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat in the last half century.
This second edition of this text combines an account of the history of McCarthyism from its origins in the 1930s through its escalation in the 1940s to its decline in the 1950s with documents tracing the course of anti-Communist furore in the US.
This second edition of this text combines an account of the history of McCarthyism from its origins in the 1930s through its escalation in the 1940s to its decline in the 1950s with documents tracing the course of anti-Communist furore in the US.
The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.
"American Science in an Age of Anxiety is the first major study of American scientists' encounters with Cold War anticommunism in the decade after World War II. Through the extensive use of archival sources - including recently released FBI files - as well as published primary a…