In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950 1541675541, 9781541675544

An evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War Halfway through the twentieth century, the Un

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In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
1541675541, 9781541675544

For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and

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In dozens of slave conspiracy scares in North American and the Caribbean, colonists terrorized and killed slaves whom th

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Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the

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