Audiobook8 hours
American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism
Written by Ellen Schrecker
Narrated by Ellen Schrecker
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
During the early years of the Cold War, the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism swept through American society. As we will discover, McCarthyism was much more than the career of the blustering senator from Wisconsin who gave it a name. It was the most widespread and longest-lasting episode of political repression in American history. Dozens of men and women went to prison, thousands lost their jobs, and untold numbers of others saw what happened to those people and refrained from expressing controversial or unpopular ideas. McCarthyism remains all too relevant today; if nothing else, it reminds us that we cannot take our basic freedoms for granted. This course aims to provide a basic understanding of what happened during the Cold War red scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. It will look at this red scare from the perspective of both the victims and the perpetrators, and will try to answer the following question: How could such a politically repressive movement arise in a modern democratic society such as the post-World War II United States? In order to answer that question, this course will look at earlier red scares as well as at some of the key players and institutions involved. It will examine those aspects of the domestic and international politics of the late 1940s and 1950s that contributed to the rise of the anticommunist furor. It will also explore the most important political trials of the era as well as investigate the experiences of its more anonymous (and perhaps more typical) victims. Finally, it will assess the costs of McCarthyism. How did it affect the men and women directly involved with it? And, more important, how did it affect American culture, politics, and the rest of American society?
Related to American Inquisition
Related audiobooks
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Free Enterprise: An American History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Death of Conservatism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnti-Intellectualism in American Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Joseph McCarthy: Re-Examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paranoid Style in American Politics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alger Hiss and the Battle for History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Propaganda Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To Lose a Battle: France 1940 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of American Unreason Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mankind in the Making (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Happened to Bernie Sanders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People and the Ballot: A History of American Party Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsF.U.B.A.R. Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
United States History For You
Land of Delusion: Out on the edge with the crackpots and conspiracy-mongers remaking our shared reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: 2nd Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Charlie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letter from Birmingham Jail Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Adams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for American Inquisition
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
2 ratings0 reviews