Format:
697 Seiten ;
,
25 cm.
ISBN:
0-671-22682-7
,
0-671-24848-0
Note:
Part one : The politics of hysteria. The Truman doctrine : Pax Americana -- The Republican catharsis -- Espionage fever : myth of the vital secret -- The states and subversion -- Part two : The machinery of repression. The Congressional inquisition -- The FBI and the informers -- The Constitution concussed in the courts -- Part three : The assault on the left. Bureaucratic persecution -- The Communist Party goes under -- Hell in Pittsburgh -- The deportation terror -- The golden curtain : passports and immigration -- Part four : purge of the Civil Service. The Federal Civil Service -- The Armed Forces : a code of dishonor -- The State Department and the China experts -- The UN, brief refuge -- State and city employees -- Part five : Pacification of the working class. How to break a union -- How to fire a worker -- United Elecrical Workers on the rack -- On the waterfront -- Part six : Purge of the professions. Purge of the "reducators" -- New York teachers on trial -- Newspapermen and libraries -- Science : sanity or "security"? -- Part seven : Show business : the blacklists. Hollywood -- Radio, television and theater -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : undercover agents -- Appendix B : The Tillett survey : the predicament of the discharged teacher -- Appendix C : The Hollywood blacklist
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Antikommunismus
;
1890-1969 Eisenhower, Dwight D.
;
1884-1972 Truman, Harry S.
;
MacCarthyismus
;
Geschichte
