Bibliography
CAUTE, DAVID. The Great Fear (1978). Surveys anti-Communist activities during the presidencies of Truman and Eisenhower.
DEAN, ROBERT D. The Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (2001). How ideas of masculinity helped shape American foreign policy and led to a purge of suspected homosexuals in the State Department during the McCarthy Era.
DMYTRYK, EDWARD. Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten (1996). Account of the persecution of alleged Communists in Hollywood by one of the accused who later became an informer.
DOHERTY, THOMAS. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003). Explores the simultaneous rise of television and McCarthyism, with the new medium facilitating both the rise and fall of McCarthy.
GOODMAN, WALTER. The Committee (1968). History of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
HOFSTADTER, RICHARD. The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1952, 1963). Classic examination of the tendency of some Americans to see conspiracies where none exist.
REEVES, THOMAS C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982). Superbly researched and carefully balanced account of McCarthy’s life.
SCHRECKER, ELLEN. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998). Explores communism and anticommunism in America from 1919 to the 1950s.
CAUTE, DAVID. The Great Fear (1978). Surveys anti-Communist activities during the presidencies of Truman and Eisenhower.
DEAN, ROBERT D. The Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (2001). How ideas of masculinity helped shape American foreign policy and led to a purge of suspected homosexuals in the State Department during the McCarthy Era.
DMYTRYK, EDWARD. Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten (1996). Account of the persecution of alleged Communists in Hollywood by one of the accused who later became an informer.
DOHERTY, THOMAS. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003). Explores the simultaneous rise of television and McCarthyism, with the new medium facilitating both the rise and fall of McCarthy.
GOODMAN, WALTER. The Committee (1968). History of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
HOFSTADTER, RICHARD. The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1952, 1963). Classic examination of the tendency of some Americans to see conspiracies where none exist.
REEVES, THOMAS C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982). Superbly researched and carefully balanced account of McCarthy’s life.
SCHRECKER, ELLEN. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998). Explores communism and anticommunism in America from 1919 to the 1950s.