Teaching Anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American Postwar Conservatism 9780228003199

A revealing portrait of an international anticommunist crusader whose life presaged the role of religion in right-wing A

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Teaching Anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American Postwar Conservatism
 9780228003199

Table of contents :
Cover
TEACHING ANTICOMMUNISM
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 A Crusader’s Tale
2 Touching the Multitudes
3 The CACC: Functioning, Clienteles, Status, and Global View
4 “Operation Testimony”
5 “We Could Reach Everyone in the World”
6 The Changing Face of Anticommunism
7 “The Triumphal Spirit of These Days”: 1960–61 Success
8 “Schwarz Stirs Them Up, Welch Signs Them Up”: First Controversies
9 High-Water Mark: August–December 1961 and Crusade Spinoffs
10 World Ambitions
11 Crusaders
12 Troubled Times
13 Resilience, Revival, and End
Epilogue
Notes
Index

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