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Mccarthyism and the red Scare: A Reference Guide (Guides to Historic Events in America)
William Walker
Synopsis "Mccarthyism and the red Scare: A Reference Guide (Guides to Historic Events in America)"
This book is a must-read for anyone studying and researching the rise and fall of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism in American political life. * Provides an overview of McCarthyism and the postwar Red Scare, relating these mindsets to other waves of domestic persecution * Includes 12 relevant historic documents such as the Truman Loyalty Oaths; a transcript of McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, West Virginia; McCarthy's attacks on Acheson and Marshall; Margaret Chase Smith's Statement on Conscience; and the Senate's censure of McCarthy * Provides information on the First Red Scare and the emergence of the American fear of the Left and the potential for a revolution * Includes 11 short biographies of primary individuals associated with McCarthyism and the Red Scare * Presents a chronology of events that threatened or weakened individual rights throughout the 20th century, with a specific focus on the Red Scare periods of 1919-21 and 1945-57 * An annotated bibliography includes primary and secondary sources representing the most significant contemporary and scholarly works on the topic
