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American Anticommunism: Combating The Enemy Within, 1930-1970
Reviewed by William G. Hyland
American Anticommunism: Combating The Enemy Within, 1930-1970
Johns Hopkins University Press
1990
235 pp.
$35.00
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This succinct and sensible history shows how fear of "Reds" was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains the fading of anticommunism since the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
