THE HAUNTED FIFTIES - 1953 - 1963: A Nonconformist History of Our Times

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1989. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xxi) 394 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the upper left of the backcover and a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Overture: Note to the Rest of the Universe. The Eisenhower Era Begins: From Mink to General Motors; Challenging the Left: Back Ike for Peace; How Ike Earned His Afternoon Off. John Foster Dulles: Portrait of a Liberator. McCarthy Rides High: Quis Custodiet Custodem; Soap Opera Hero; The Silence in the Senate; A Skeptical Army General; The J. Edgar Hoover-McCarthy Axis; The F.B.I. Since the Witch Hunt. A Few Who Fought Back: Bleak Landscape of the Resistance; Man Against Myth; The Case of the Cooperative Teacher; Charlie Chaplin's Farewell Custard; Einstein Oxnam and the Inquisition; McCarthy's Bluff and Two Who Called It. An Attempt to Compel Informing: Why the Pilgrim Fathers Left; In the Footsteps of John Lilburne. The Death of Stalin: A Chill Falls on Washington; From Moscow: A New Kind of Confession. Churchill Abandons the Cold War. The New Chief Justice: From Vinson to Warren; May 17 1954. The Downfall of McCarthy: Redoubtable Gambler; The First Welts on Joe McCarthy; The Cost of Anticommunism; Guilty. Fetish of the Fifties: Security: Incommensurate Equation: Justice and Security; The Army Commissions Franz Kafka; Morality: A Security Problem; The Oppenheimer Verdict; Loyalty and Double Jeopardy; The Army and the Mind of Youth; Loyal Coastguardsman Comes Home. First Call for a Test Ban. The Drift of Foreign Policy: Sanity or War: Quemoy and Matsu; Toward Gobal Negotiations; Molotov at San Francisco; McCarthy's Secretary of State; Foreign Policy and Melodrama; Mutual Inspection: John Meets Ivan. The President's Illness. The Sickness of the South: The Murder of Emmett Till; The White Race: Alabama and Algeria; Eisenhower Goes Neutralist - on Civil Rights. The Free Mind At Work: The Vindication of Owen Lattimore; Harvey O'Connor: Fulfillment of a Responsibility; Barrows Dunham: Acquittal; Albert Einstein. National Suicide As a Form of Defense. U.S.S.R.: The Twentieth Congress: The Meaning of Khrushchev's Revisions; Historic Moment in the Soviet Union. A Visit to Moscow: This Rival Giant; Natasha's Ready Answers; The Soviet Criminal Code; The Legacy of Stalin. In the Fresher Air of Poland. The Presidency 1956: Who Is Eisenhower; The GOP's Own Personality Cult. Hungary: The Workers Rise Against the Workers' State; The Soviet Government Smashes Soviets. The Eisenhower Doctrine: Grand Design; A Readiness to Police the World; The Mote in Mine Own Eye. Mental Climate of the Fifties: Freedom of the Press: A Minority Opinion; The First Amendment and the Twentieth Congress; On the Death of Toscanini. Ike in Action: The Easy Way Out; Those Bull Sessions with Zhukov. Toward the Prosperous War: Misguided Missiles; The Responsibility of the Scientist; Military Minuet. The Mind of Nikita Khrushchev: Is This Marxism; No Competition in Ideas. The Liberal Court of Earl Warren: The Court Turns Back the Clock; The Watkins and Sweezy Decisions. The Black Man's Burden: Nobody to Vote For; Nixon Was Cordial in Ghana; The Beginnings of Revolution. A Stranger Knocks at Heaven's Gate. Our War Economy: The Liberals and the Military Budget; The Infationary Spiral; Creeping Socialism or Stumbling Capitalism. The American Secret Police: The FBI Investigates Itself; J. Edgar Hoover Reports; The Menace of Cyrus Eaton. Coexistence: Choice of Risks: The Latest Treachery of Nikita Khrushchev; The Chance to End Nuclear Tests. The Marines in Lebanon: Gunboat Diplomacy in the H-Bomb Age; Khrushchev Breaks Out of Containment. Racial Equality in Crisis: The Line Outside the Court; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; The Wall Between; The Evasions of Eisenhower. Little Rock: A Piece of Foreign Correspondence: When the Bourbon Flowed; In the Delta Country. Freedom of Thought - Here and There: Boris Pasternak; Delicacy in Journalism; The Daily Worker. T.