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Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Pbk. Ed edition (9 Aug 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0691048703
ISBN-13: 978-0691048703
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm

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M.J. Heale, American Studies

It is a true work of scholarship. The depth of Ellen Schreckert's research, her careful analysis and her elegant prose command respect.

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If the national memory is ever to reach closure on this tragic episode, Schrecker's analysis is a significant and compelling contribution.
(William J. Preston, Jr. Los Angeles Times )

[Schrecker's] thoughtful and earnest new study, Many Are the Crimes, offers the most comprehensive view yet of the process that turned a legal, political, economic, and cultural crusade into `the home front of the Cold War.'
(Henry Mayer San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle )

A valuable contribution for anyone who would understand the dynamics of the domestic cold war. [Schrecker] has provided an alternative framework that does much to put McCarthyism in America in perspective.
(Victor Navasky The Nation )

Nothing could be more welcome to students and scholars of United States history than the appearance in paperback of Ellen Schrecker's history of the anti-Communist mania which disgraced America in the 1940's and 50's. . . .Schrecker's book is distinguished from its forerunners by its comprehensive scholarship (soundly based in archival research), lucid exposition and calm intelligence.
(Hugh Brogan Time Literary Supplement )

The book's great value is that it brings together recent work on McCarthyism and wonderfully illuminates the relationships between the component parts of that protean culture, and its own extensive original research enhances its authority. It is a true work of scholarship. The depth of Ellen Schreckert's research, her careful analysis and her elegant prose command respect.
(M.J. Heale American Studies )

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4.0 out of 5 stars The beginnings of political bashing, 5 Dec 1998

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This review is from: Many are the Crimes: Maccarthy (Hardcover)

I bought this book because I wanted to know more about Sen. Joe McCarthy and how he could run rampant for so long. I was initially disappointed; however, the more I read the more I realized how Schrecker has gone far beyond the hearings. Her book illustrates the art of 'baiting'; initially it was "Red" baiting, where the mere mention of "Communist" was enough to ruin a career or permantently taint a societal segment with absolutely no legal or practical recourse. The expansion of this "baiting" technique of advancing personal, financial or political ambitions is obvious today.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Apallingly limited perceptions, 23 Jul 1998

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In her book, and in the discussion with Amazon.com Ellen Schrecker makes several grossly inaccurate statements. The first, in her interview, is that there was virtually nothing in the literature on the forces which brought "McCarthyism" to such power. Well, that is simply not true. She has been reading the wrong literature! I suggest that she read the radical literature for starters, and mainstream moderately liberal rags such as Dissent.

However, I will deal primarily with one of the most egregious of her errors, which leads to major errors elsewhere in the book. It IS NOT TRUE that "most" of those affected by the political witch-hunts of the 50s and 60s were connected to the Communist Party of the United States. In fact, most of those affected belonged to small, marginal organizations such as the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters League. Some belonged to resolutely Anti-Soviet organizations, such as the Inde! pendent Socialist League. Some belonged to organizations which were founded before WW II by European emigres fleeing Hitler. These organizations became primarily social circles. In any event, when they were listed on the State Dept list of "UnAmerican" organizations they were not advised they were so listed. They often discovered this when members were denied passports because of their -- entirely legal and openly acknowledged -- membership in one of these NON Communist organizations. Nor, until Eisenhower became President, was there any appeal process. [The infamous list had been created by Executive order of Harry S. Truman who hypocritically tried to paint himself as standing up to McCarthy -- after McCarthy had been discredited by the Army-McCarthy hearings and had alcoholically drowned himself into a none too early grave.]

The first person to use the appeal process, established by executive order of Eisenhower, was Max Schachtman, founder of the Independen! t Socialist League, a resolutely anti-Soviet Trotskyist org! anization. His attorney was Joe Rau, then a young man, who later became a well known Civil Liberties and Labor attorney.

It is not true that, as the author says the FBI "correctly targeted" the people they persecuted.Their behavior was clearly a violation of the First Amendment. The FBI undertook this harassment in violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution. And HUAC and the McCarthy committee -- and many State legislative committees "investigated" a constructed phenomenon which they did not have the power to legislate. The witch hunters were the UnAmerican politicals.

I would agree that it should have been called [J.Edgar] Hooverism rather than McCarthyism. Hunting radicals was so much safer and cheaper that gathering evidence against organized crime! Radicals and Pacifists and Communists did not shoot back. And they had very little money - in fact, a number of these organizations were kept afloat by FBI funds. Much if not most of the ! material in those FBI files is gossip.

She is right that the destructive effects of that period are still being felt, often in subtle ways. As example, one of America's worst presidents, Richard Nixon, rose to political prominence by exploiting anti-Communist hysteria in every one of his political campaigns, first against Jerry Voorhees for the House, and then against Helen Gahagan Douglas for the Senate.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive history of McCarthyism's Lesser-Known Victims, 18 May 1998

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Many studies of the McCarthy period have focused on the "Big Names" such as the Hollywood Ten or Alger Hiss. Ellen Schrecker gives a sense of the broad swath cut by McCarthyism as it affected more ordinary people, who seldom made the headlines. Schrecker is the acknowledged authority on the period, particularly in regards to academe. Her new book presents new archival materials that have recently become available that shed new light on the era.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A book that loves Reds, but hates the CPUSA & USSR?
This review is written from the viewpoint of a working class Marxist.

From our point of view, the McCarthyite Red Scare was a hysteria instigated by the US ruling class. Read more

Published on 26 Feb 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars a condemnation of the U.S. and a support for communism
Schrecker is a left-wing liberal flower child holdover from the 1960's. She neglects to realize that Communism was an aggressive threat both to the U.S. Read more

Published on 20 Oct 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars Dissects "paradox" of security interests and civil liberties
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