A good American family : the Red Scare and my father

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A good American family : the Red Scare and my father

Title remainder

the Red Scare and my father

Statement of responsibility

David Maraniss

Language

eng

Summary

"A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--
Elliott Maraniss, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. David Maraniss weaves his father's story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital twentieth-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms. -- adapted from jacket

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

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LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

320.97309/04

Illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E743.5

LC item number

.M36 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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