The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left / / Landon R.Y. Storrs.

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• VerfasserIn: Storrs, Landon R.Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 86
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 22 halftones.

In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy required attacking economic and social inequalitie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Selected Government Officials Investigated under the Federal Loyalty Program
• The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. When the Old Left Was Young . . . and Went to Washington
• Chapter 2. Allegations of Disloyalty at Labor and Consumer Agencies, 1939-43
• Chapter 3. "Pinks in Minks": The Antifeminism of the Old Right
• Chapter 4. The Loyalty Investigations of Mary Dublin Keyserling and Leon Keyserling
• Chapter 5. Secrets and Self-Reinvention: The Making of Cold War Liberalism
• Chapter 6. "A Soul-Searing Process": Trauma in the Civil Service
• Chapter 7. Loyalty Investigations and the "End of Reform"
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Loyalty Case Records and Selection
• Appendix 2. Case Summaries
• Appendix 3. Chronology of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program
• Appendix 4. Statistics of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources
• Index
• Backmatter