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Red Scare : Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas / Don Carleton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292758568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 976.4/1411063
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1 A Nervous New Civilization -- 2 Voices from the Left -- 3 Fear and Money -- 4 Red Scare Activists Organize -- 5 The Red Scare Begins -- 6 The Red Scare and the Schools -- 7 The Victim Is a Symbol: The George W. Ebey Affair -- 8 "Oveta Doesn't Brook Back-Talk" -- 9 Demagogues in Austin: McCarthy at San Jacinto -- 10 Bertie and the Board -- 11 Conclusion: Beyond the Red Scare -- Essay on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1 A Nervous New Civilization -- 2 Voices from the Left -- 3 Fear and Money -- 4 Red Scare Activists Organize -- 5 The Red Scare Begins -- 6 The Red Scare and the Schools -- 7 The Victim Is a Symbol: The George W. Ebey Affair -- 8 "Oveta Doesn't Brook Back-Talk" -- 9 Demagogues in Austin: McCarthy at San Jacinto -- 10 Bertie and the Board -- 11 Conclusion: Beyond the Red Scare -- Essay on Sources -- Notes -- Index

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Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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