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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.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.921 M437Bl 2004    ---  Available
Description viii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-211) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Matusow, Harvey, 1926-
Informers -- United States -- Biography.
Ex-communists -- United States -- Biography.
False testimony -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
Added Author Cohen, Ronald D., 1940-
ISBN 0252028864 (cloth : acid-free paper)

 
    
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