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Dark Days in the Newsroom
Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan. He shows how McCarthy's minions pried inside newsrooms thought to be sacrosanct under the First Amendment, and details how journalists mounted a heroic defense of freedom of the press while others secretly enlisted in the government's anti-communist crusade.
Relying on previously undisclosed documents from FBI files, along with personal interviews, Alwood provides a richly informed commentary on one of the most significant moments in the history of American journalism. Arguing that the experiences of the McCarthy years profoundly influenced the practice of journalism, he shows how many of the issues faced by journalists in the 1950s prefigure today's conflicts over the right of journalists to protect their sources.
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McCarthyism and the red scare
\"Politically and socially, the decade from 1947 to 1956 marked an era of repression and fear. McCarthyism was a practice named for the blustery U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Known for his reckless and unsubstantiated accusations, he led a campaign to root out real and imagined \"subversives\" in American society. Packed with enlightening primary and secondary source material, McCarthyism and the Red Scare examines topical issues to help readers think critically about such concepts as freedom, Constitutional rights, blacklisting, and personal and state ideology.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War
This book breaks new ground in the history of anthropology, opening up an explicit examination of anthropology in the Cold War era. With historical distance, Cold War anthropology has begun to emerge as a distinct field within the discipline. This book brings a number of different approaches to bear on the questions raised by anthropology's Cold War history.
The contributors show how anthropologists became both tools and victims of the Cold War state during the rise of the United States in the post-War period. Examining the intersection between science and power, this book is a compelling read for anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and anyone interested in the way in which colonial and neo-colonial knowledge is produced and constructed.
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Joe McCarthy and the Press
This is a book for historians, journalists—and for all of us who need to remember this turbulent time on our nation's past, and its lessons for today.
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Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
\"In January 1954, Joseph McCarthy was one of the most powerful members of the United States Senate. By the end of that year he had been censured by his colleagues, and his power was shattered. Ike and McCarthy is the dramatic story of how President Dwight Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to make this happen. When Eisenhower took office in January 1953, anticommunist fervor was at a fever pitch. The loudest voice was McCarthy's, charging that the government was riddled with communist spies. Ike thought that McCarthy's accusations were dangerously irresponsible, but in 1953 he had other priorities, including ending the Korean War. Commentators and pundits blasted Eisenhower for not confronting McCarthy, but the president believed that challenging McCarthy directly would only enhance the senator's reputation. However, when McCarthy launched an investigation into communists in the Army, Eisenhower, who had spent most of his life as a soldier, knew he would not be exempt from McCarthy's attacks. David A. Nichols tells the riveting and little-known story of how Eisenhower and his advisers carefully plotted their successful effort to diminish McCarthy's influence. Eisenhower was not above exploiting personal information about McCarthy's chief counsel Roy Cohn's relationship with army private G. David Schine. When Ike learned that Cohn had repeatedly sought special privileges for Schine, the White House instigated an investigation into whether McCarthy had exercised improper influence on Schine's behalf. The resulting report by the army, which concealed the White House's role, ignited a political firestorm that resulted in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Those hearings, lasting two months, exposed McCarthy's tactics to the public through the new medium of television. That was McCarthy's downfall, covertly manipulated by Eisenhower and his closest advisers. While others played a part, Dwight Eisenhower's secret role in McCarthy's destruction is a seminal story in American political history. Nichols has drawn on thousands of McCarthy-related documents in the Eisenhower Presidential Library archives that Ike ordered a subordinate to collect, as well as other declassified documents, to tell this story of a classic Washington power struggle.\"--Jacket flaps.
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Le maccarthysme ou la peur Rouge
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le maccarthysme en moins d'une heure! Le 9 février 1950, Joseph McCarthy annonce lors du Lincoln Day qu'il existe au sein même du Gouvernement américain des communistes qui influenceraient la politique du pays. Si l'on se méfiait déjà du communisme depuis de très longues années, l'information sème un vent de panique tel qu'on n'en a jamais vu. La peur rouge ou Red Scare atteint son apogée. Durant quatre ans, les États-Unis vivent au rythme angoissant des enquêtes, des arrestations et des condamnations qui touchent tous les secteurs, depuis le cinéma jusqu'aux plus hautes instances de l'État. C'est une véritable chasse aux sorcières qui est lancée par le sénateur McCarthy que rien n'arrêtera. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur: •Le contexte de l'époque
•Les acteurs principaux
•Le maccarthysme
•Ses répercussions Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection 50MINUTES|Grands Événements, Christel Lamboley revient sur un épisode marquant de l'histoire américaine de l'après-guerre. Si la campagne est d'abord lancée contre les agents communistes infiltrés dans les hautes sphères du pouvoir américain, elle touche très vite tout ce qu'elle considère comme déviant, tant au niveau politique que social, culturel et même sexuel. » Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grands Événements La série « Grands Événements » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante faits qui ont bouleversé notre histoire. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent tout savoir sur un sujet précis, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Be Really Afraid
There is one concept missing in Richard Hofstadter's iconic \"The Paranoid Style in American Politics\" (1964). Remarking that \"American politics has often been an arena for angry minds,\" Hofstadter describes the way that conspiratorial thinking depends on a paranoid style, yet he misses the fact that the paranoid style is always, also, deeply ironic. Hofstadter seems to deliberately sidestep the irony of the paranoid style he analyzes, choosing, instead, to take it all very seriously. While many have critiqued Hofstadter's association of paranoia with conspiratorial thinking, few have keyed into the notion that the flaw in Hofstadter's piece is not his overemphasis on paranoia, but rather his oversight of irony.
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