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The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left /

The loyalty investigations triggered by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented women and men who had entered government service during the Great Depression seeking to promote social democracy as a means to economic reform. Their influence over New Deal policymaking and their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Storrs, Landon R. Y. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Selected government officials investigated under federal loyalty program
  • When the old left was young ... and went to Washington
  • Allegations of disloyalty at labor and consumer agencies, 1939-1943
  • "Pinks in minks" : the antifeminism of the old right
  • The loyalty investigations of Mary Dublin Keyserling and Leon Keyserling
  • Secrets and self-reinvention : the making of Cold War liberalism
  • "A soul-searing process" : trauma in the Civil Service
  • Loyalty investigations and the "end of reform."