Offers an analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon, tracing the machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion.

This book tells the story of one of the most monumental blunders the United States committed during its shameful era of McCarthyism.

Only now, through bestselling author Larry Tye's exclusive look at the senator's records, can the full story be told. Demagogue is a masterful portrait of a human being capable of immense evil, yet beguiling charm.

Conventional wisdom holds that television was coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, but Doherty argues that it was through television that America actually became a more open and tolerant place.

Studies the critical role homeland politics plays in Vietnamese immigrants' assimilation into the host society

Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege.

With a storyteller's eye for the dramatic, presentation of fact, and insightful interpretation of human complexity, Oshinsky uncovers the layers of myth to reveal the true Joe McCarthy and the forces that launched him to prominence and ...

An account of American history traces anticommunist sentiment from the 1930s to its apex during the reign of Senator McCarthy, examining the period's cast of characters and their influence Providing the most complete history of the rise and ...

Cold War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding of a critical chapter in the nation’s history.