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A good American family : the Red Scare and my father / David Maraniss.

Summary:

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

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

Record details

ISBN: 9781501178375
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Physical Description: 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-398) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part one: Watching one another. 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 -- Part two: In a time of war. Something in the wind -- Legless -- Know your men -- Why I fight -- In the blood -- The power of America -- Part three. Trials and tribulations. The Virginian -- Foley square -- Committee men -- A good American family -- March 12, 1952 -- The whole pattern of a life -- Witches or traitors -- Part four: five years. American wanderers -- Epilogue: Second acts.