Loyalty and liberty : American countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy era /

Loyalty and Liberty offers the first comprehensive account of the politics of countersubversion in the United States prior to the McCarthy era. A sweeping study that surveys the loyalty politics of World War I, the antiradicalism of the 1920s and antifascism of the 1930s and the emerging McCarthyite...

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Main Author: Goodall, Alex (Alexis Vere)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
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