Phillip Deery Red Apple (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Red AppleCondition: NewSubtitle: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New YorkISBN-10: 0823253686EAN: 9780823253685ISBN: 9780823253685Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/01/2014Description: From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they jettisoned some of its tenets. Congressional committees worked in tandem, although not necessarily in collusion, with the FBI, law firms, university administrations, publishing houses, television networks, movie studios, and a legion of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to target “subversive” individuals.Exploring the human consequences of the widespread paranoia that gripped a nation, Red Apple presents the international and domestic context for the experiences of these individuals: the House Un-American Activities Committee, hearings of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, resulting in the incarceration of its chairman, Dr. Edward Barsky, and its executive board; the academic freedom cases of two New York University professors, Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, culminating in their dismissal from the university; the blacklisting of the communist writer Howard Fast and his defection from American communism; the visit of an anguished Dimitri Shostakovich to New York in the spring of 1949; and the attempts by O. John Rogge, the Committee’s lawyer, to find a “third way” in the quest for peace, which led detractors to question which side he was on.Examining real-life experiences at the “ground level,” Deery explores how these six individuals experienced, responded to, and suffered from one of the most savage assaults on civil liberties in American history. Their collective stories illuminate the personal costs of holding dissident political beliefs in the face of intolerance and moral panic that is as relevant today as it was seventy years ago.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Phillip DeeryGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Red Apple

Title: Red Apple

Subtitle: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

ISBN-10: 0823253686

EAN: 9780823253685

ISBN: 9780823253685

Release Date: 01/01/2014

Release Year: 2014

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Red Apple : Communism and Mccarthyism in Cold War New York

Number of Pages: 240 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Fordham University Press

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2014

Topic: American Government / Local, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Civil Rights, Political, Historical

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Weight: 19.2 Oz

Author: Phillip Deery

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover