Now, in Many Are the Crimes, Ellen Schrecker gives us the first complete post-Cold War account of McCarthyism.
Most of the men and women who were charged in the McCarthy-era purges had been involved with the American Communist party. However, despite the unfairness of their methods, the nation's most powerful anti-Communists in the FBI, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and elsewhere were generally accurate in their accusations. In the name of national security, most Americans - liberal and conservative alike - supported the anticommunist crusade that ruined so many careers, marriages, even lives.
Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. Summary: The McCarthy Era was a bad time for freedom in America.
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