A good American family : the Red Scare and my father

Author

David Maraniss

Call Number

• 320.973 M3114 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Physical Description

416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

"A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--

Contents

• The imperfect S
• In from the cold
• Outside the gate
• Red menace
• Wheelman wood
• "Negro, not niggra"
• A new world coming
• A brief Spanish inquisition
• The runner
• Named
• Ace and mary
• Fear and loathing
• Something in the wind
• Legless
• Know your men
• Why I fight
• In the blood
• The power of America
• The Virginian
• Foley square
• Committee men
• A good American family
• March 12, 1952
• The whole pattern of a life
• Witches or traitors
• American wanderers
• Epilogue. second acts.