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035			_a(OCoLC)870969977
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100	1		_aDeery, Phillip.
245	1	0	_aRed apple : _bcommunism and McCarthyism in cold war New York / _cPhillip Deery.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (268 pages) : _billustrations, portraits
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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. 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. Examining real-life experiences at the "ground level," Deery explores how these six individuals experienced, responded to, and suffered from one of the most savage assaults on civil liberties in American history. Their collective stories illuminate the personal costs of holding dissident political beliefs in the face of intolerance and moral panic that is as relevant today as it was seventy years ago"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
610	2	0	_aJoint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bHouse. _bCommittee on Un-American Activities.
650		0	_aAnti-communist movements _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitical persecution _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAnti-communist movements _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitical persecution _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _xHistory _y20th century.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aDeery, Phillip. _tRed apple : communism and McCarthyism in cold war New York. _dNew York : Fordham University Press, 2014 _hxi, 252 pages _z9780823253685 _w(DLC) 2013032064
797	2		_aebrary.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10810767 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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