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The Fear Within : Spies, Commies and American Democracy on Trial.

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Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today. The Fear Within takes aim at one pivotal moment of that era: July 20, 1948 when FBI agents began rounding up twelve men whom the government believed posed a grave threat-the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. Sc...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Martelle, Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Dennis, Eugene, > 1905-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Communist Party of the United States of America > History.
United States. > Alien Registration Act, 1940.
Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1949.
Communist trials > United States.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Communism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
Dennis, Eugene, > 1905-1961.
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Alien Registration Act, 1940 (United States)
Anti-communist movements.
Communism.
Communist trials.
Politics and government.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
New York (State) > New York.
United States.
Trials, litigation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Fear, and Howard Smith's law
  • From spies to speeches
  • A sudden and violent storm
  • The judge, and the mood
  • Battle lines and battle scars
  • The trial opens
  • Deserters and spies
  • Stool pigeons and turncoats
  • The defense
  • The Peekskill Riots
  • Guilty
  • In the wind
  • Hollow vindication.

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