Red hunting in the promised land : anticommunism and the making of America
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Red hunting in the promised land : anticommunism and the making of America
Cassell, 1997
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Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-318) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Tracing the evolution of anti-communism from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of communism in recent years, this book challenges the basic understanding of the nature of anti-communism. It draws connections between anti-communism as an internal American control mechanism, and anti-communism as an instrument of foreign policy, relating these aspects in turn to a study of psychology, national mythology and culture. It further relates anti-communism to deep-rooted structures in Western Christianity, connecting, for example, the book of Revelation to nuclear arms policy; the inquisitions in Europe to McCarthyism; and archaic mythologies of the hunt to J. Edgar Hoover's anti-communist crusade.
Table of Contents
- The great Red scare - prologue to modern anti-communism
- Father Coughlin - communism as Jewish capitalism
- George Kennan - anti-communism from the mountaintop
- John Foster Dulles and his terrible swift sword
- J. Edgar Hoover and the slimy wastes of Communism
- Joe McCarthy - the beast of anti-communism
- liberal and born-again anti-communism - Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and Arthur Koestler
- James Jesus Angleton - anti-communism as deception and paranoia
- rosebud
- overcoming anti-communism.
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