This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair, 1951-52
by McCormick, Charles H
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket x + 229pp., b/w plates, notes, bibliog., index, McCormick relates McCarthyism to witch-hunting of colonial times and to later actions against Freemasons, Roman Catholics, Jews and liberals who were regarded as threats to social order and national security. Red-baiters of the 1950s, notes the author, attacked not only famous figures of entertainment, communications, government and education, but found targets as well in provincial institutions
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- Title
- This Nest of Vipers: McCarthyism and Higher Education in the Mundel Affair, 1951-52
- Author
- McCormick, Charles H
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice copy
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- octavo
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