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Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath

Title: Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath / Bob Blauner.
Author: Blauner, Bob.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

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xx, 307 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

McCarthyism and the crisis of liberalism -- Anticommunism and academic freedom between two wars. A most contradictory history -- From world war to cold war -- UCLA and the origins of the loyalty oath -- A faculty divided. The faculty resists Sproul's oath -- New leaders : Caughey, Lehman, and the NASE -- The "sign or get out" ultimatum -- From the great double cross to the alumni compromise -- The hearings at Berkeley -- The hearings at UCLA -- War in Korea and victory in the courts. Korea changed everything -- Regents fire the nonsigners -- Warren's new oath : worse than Sproul's? -- McCarthy defeated, but his -ism lingers on -- How the oath changed a university, a nation, and peoples' lives -- Epilogue : from the loyalty oath to the free speech movement.

Call Number

JFE 09-3328

ISBN

9780804759229 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804759227 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008041872

OCLC

260254242

Author

Blauner, Bob.

Title

Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath / Bob Blauner.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 09-3328

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