Legacy of a False Promise : A Daughter's Reckoning /

"Margaret Fuchs was thirteen in June 1955 when she learned that her parents had been Communists while working for the U.S. government in the 1930s and '40s. This book chronicles the years during which her parents were exposed and her father was subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Singer, Margaret Fuchs (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Singer, Margaret Fuchs.
Fuchs, Herbert, > 1905-1988.
Fuchs, Frances Rice, > 1907-1996.
Singer, Margaret Fuchs > Family.
Singer, Margaret Fuchs > Childhood and youth.
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Un-American Activities.
Politics and government.
Parent and child.
Families.
Communists.
Anti-communist movements.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Anticommunisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Communistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Parents et enfants > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Communists > United States > Biography.
Parent and child > United States > Case studies.
Washington (D.C.)
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1961.
Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961.
Biographies.
History.
Case studies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The family secret
  • Paranoia
  • The subpoena
  • The word is out
  • The demand for a public accounting
  • Catch-22
  • About-face
  • Awaiting the board's decision
  • Public hearing, private coping
  • Cause celebre : fighting the blacklist
  • Breaking away
  • Red diaper babies
  • "Fancy a baby named 'Herbert'"
  • Secret cells
  • "But what about your mother?"
  • Too close for comfort
  • Harry Magdoff : larger than life
  • The FBI
  • Naming names
  • Remembering them
  • Healing : old friends/new family
  • Legacy of a false promise.

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