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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786820103321

Titolo

Little "red scares" : anti-communism and political repression in the United States, 1921-1946 / / edited by Robert Justin Goldstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-59273-8

1-317-10414-5

1-317-10413-7

1-4724-1377-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Disciplina

973.91

Soggetti

Anti-communist movements - United States - History - 20th century

Political persecution - United States - History - 20th century

Social conflict - United States - History - 20th century

United States Politics and government 1921-1923

United States Politics and government 1923-1929

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 After the Red Scare: Civil Liberties in the Era of Harding and Coolidge; 2  The FBI and the Politics of Anti-Communism, 1920-1945:  A Prelude to Power; 3  Citizens versus Outsiders:  Anti-Communism at State and Local Levels, 1921-1946; 4  Red Herrings? The Fish Committee and Anti-Communism in the Early Depression Years; 5  Little Red Schoolhouses?  Anti-Communists and Education in an "Age of Conflicts"; 6 Fighting the "Red Danger": Employers and Anti-Communism

7 Leftward Ramparts: Labor and Anticommunism between the World Wars8  Premature McCarthyism:  Spanish Republican Aid and the Origins of Cold War Anti-Communism; 9 Laying the Foundations for the Post-World War II Red Scare; 10 The Dies Committee v. the New Deal: Real Americans and the Unending Search for Un-Americans; 11 The Long Black and Red Scare: Anti-Communism and the African American



Freedom Struggle; 12 Shooting Rabid Dogs: New York's Rapp-Coudert Attack on Teachers Unions; 13  The History of the Smith Act and the Hatch Act; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Anti-communism has long been a potent force in American politics, capable of gripping both government and popular attention. Nowhere is this more evident that the two great 'red scares' of 1919-20 and 1946-54; the latter generally - if somewhat inaccurately - termed McCarthyism. By focusing on the interim period between the two major 'red scares', this volume makes clear that the lingering effects of 1919-20 and the gathering storm-clouds of 'McCarthyism' were clearly visible throughout the 20s and 30s. In so doing the rationale and motivations for the 'red scares' are contexualised as part of