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New York : Fordham University Press, 2014

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations, portraits

ISBN 9780823253685 (hardback)

Print version: Deery, Phillip. Red apple : communism and McCarthyism in cold war New York. New York : Fordham University Press, 2014 xi, 252 pages ISBN 9780823253685

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - The Doctor: Edward Barsky -- Chapter 3 - The Writer: Howard Fast -- Chapter 4 - The Professors: Bradley and Burgum -- Chapter 5 - The Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich -- Chapter 6 - The Lawyer: O. John Rogge -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

-Exploring the human consequences of the widespread paranoia that gripped a nation, Red Apple presents the international and domestic context for the experiences of these individuals: the House Un-American Activities Committee, hearings of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, resulting in the incarceration of its chairman, Dr. Edward Barsky, and its executive board; the academic freedom cases of two New York University professors, Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, culminating in their dismissal from the university; the blacklisting of the communist writer Howard Fast and his defection from American communism; the visit of an anguished Dimitri Shostakovich to New York in the spring of 1949; and the attempts by O. John Rogge, the Committee’s lawyer, to find a "third way" in the quest for peace, which led detractors to question which side he was on.-.

"Set against a backdrop of mounting anti-communism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and mental effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they jettisoned some of its tenets. Congressional committees worked in tandem, although not necessarily in collusion, with the FBI, law firms, university administrations, publishing houses, television networks, movie studios, and a legion of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to target "subversive" individuals.-.

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