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 Ne…
Providing the most complete history of the rise and fall of the phe-nomenon known as McCarthyism, Nightmare in Red offers a riveting and comprehensive account of the many different people who became embroiled in the anti-communist fervor of mid-century America. It traces the sec…
Seeks to provide a rounded history of the rise and fall of McCarthyism. Traces the path os anti-Communist extremism across four decades to today and shows the impact on politics and culture.
Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism and the American Red Scare, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. It discusses the turbulent years during which Americans were routinely persecuted because the…
