A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father 9781501178375, 9781501178382, 1501178385

Intro; Dedication; Epigraph; Author's Note; Part One: Watching One Another; 1. The Imperfect S; 2. In from the Cold

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 9781501178375, 9781501178382, 1501178385

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Table of contents :
Intro
Dedication
Epigraph
Author's Note
Part One: Watching One Another
1. The Imperfect S
2. In from the Cold
3. Outside the Gate
4. Red Menace
5. Wheelman Wood
6. "Negro, Not Niggra"
7. A New World Coming
8. A Brief Spanish Inquisition
9. The Runner
10. Named
11. Ace and Mary
12. Fear and Loathing
Part Two: In a Time of War
13. Something in the Wind
14. Legless
15. Know Your Men
16. Why I Fight
17. In the Blood
18. The Power of America
Part Three: Trials and Tribulations
19. The Virginian
20. Foley Square
21. Committee Men
22. A Good American Family 23. March 12, 195224. The Whole Pattern of a Life
25. Witches or Traitors
Part Four: Five Years
26. American Wanderers
Epilogue: Second Acts
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Copyright

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