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Deadly farce : Harvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era
- Title
- Deadly farce : Harvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era / Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen.
- Author
- Lichtman, Robert M., 1933-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Cohen, Ronald D., 1940-2022.
- Description
- viii, 227 p., [10] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Communism > United States > History > 20th century
- Informers > United States > Biography
- Ex-communists > United States > Biography
- Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953
- Matusow, Harvey, 1926-2002
- False testimony > United States > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-211) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the informers' era -- Birth of a party member -- The making of an informer -- Hitting the big time -- Blacklists and election campaigns -- Fruits of triumph -- Mixed messages -- Matusow's odyssey -- Writing and recanting -- At center stage -- Paying the piper -- Four decades of aftermath -- Epilogue : a note on the historians.
- Call Number
- IAG 04-2302
- ISBN
- 0252028864 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003011714
- OCLC
- 52377432
- Author
- Lichtman, Robert M., 1933-
- Title
- Deadly farce : Harvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era / Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-211) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Cohen, Ronald D., 1940-2022.
- Research Call Number
- IAG 04-2302