A Study in Hysterics: "The Age of McCarthyism"

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This paper explores the communist movement in America as portrayed in Ellen Schrecker's book "The Age of McCarthyism." This paper details the book's underlying thesis which is that although communism wasn't outlawed, the systematic attacks by local, state and the federal government to chip away at its membership with intent to destroy the movement seriously damaged the ideals set forth in the first amendment. This paper also contains detailed information and facts pertaining to the McCarthy era and the communist movement in America.

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"The documentation is also quite thorough in the amount of information and the variety of personal and government sources. Schrecker makes it a point to grant both the Communists and mainstream America space in the documentation to show the personal sides of their struggles. This is a touch not often utilized in other traditional historical texts, which focus more on the official government documentation rather than the humanity, flawed or not, contained in personal essays or interviews."

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