| A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father Contributor(s): Maraniss, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 143287067X ISBN-13: 9781432870676 Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 320.973 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.95 lbs) 686 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 1950's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Elliott Maraniss, a WWII veteran, was named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. In a sweeping drama that moves from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father�s story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital twentieth-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms |