anti-communist movements

"Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimately resulted in McCarthy being censured and discredited"--NoveList.

The author relies on recently published government records and FBI files to reveal the myths surrounding Joseph McCarthy and his political campaign to uncover Communist sympathizers in America during the 1950s.

Explores the events and people surrounding the communist scare that was started by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

"A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--Provided by publisher.

"Set against a backdrop of mounting anti-communism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and mental effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. 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."--Provided by publisher.

Thousands of Nazis, from concentration camp guards and officers in the Third Reich, came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own, as refugees, but thousands had help from the U.S. government. The CIA, the FBI and others all put Hitler's minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years later did government prosecutors begin trying to identify them, relying on a trove of newly discovered documents.

Looks at the way that fear of Communism sparked a hysteria in the United States in the mid-twentieth century that led to two red scares and the rise and fall of McCarthyism.