Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (eBook)
424 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4525-5 (ISBN)
Landon R. Y. Storrs is professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.
How Red Scare politics undermined the reform potential of the New DealIn the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy required attacking economic and social inequalities. The influence of these men and women within the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and their alliances with progressive social movements, elicited a powerful reaction from conservatives, who accused them of being subversives. Landon Storrs draws on newly declassified records of the federal employee loyalty program-created in response to claims that Communists were infiltrating the U.S. government-to reveal how disloyalty charges were used to silence these New Dealers and discredit their policies.Because loyalty investigators rarely distinguished between Communists and other leftists, many noncommunist leftists were forced to leave government or deny their political views. Storrs finds that loyalty defendants were more numerous at higher ranks of the civil service than previously thought, and that many were women, or men with accomplished leftist wives. Uncovering a forceful left-feminist presence in the New Deal, she also shows how opponents on the Right exploited popular hostility to powerful women and their supposedly effeminate spouses. The loyalty program not only destroyed many promising careers, it prohibited discussion of social democratic policy ideas in government circles, narrowing the scope of political discourse to this day.Through a gripping narrative based on remarkable new sources, Storrs demonstrates how the Second Red Scare repressed political debate and constrained U.S. policymaking in fields such as public assistance, national health insurance, labor and consumer protection, civil rights, and international aid.
Landon R. Y. Storrs is professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.10.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Politics and Society in Modern America |
| Zusatzinfo | 22 halftones. |
| Verlagsort | Princeton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Abe Fortas • activism • Adviser • Affidavit • Alger Hiss • Amendment • American Politics • americans • Americans For Democratic Action • American Values • American welfare state • Anticommunism • Anti-Communism • anticommunist right • antidemocracy • antifeminism • Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations • Bernstein • Capitalism • Career • Civic Participation • Civil servants • civil service • communism • Communist front • Communist Party USA • congressional investigative committees • conservative journalists • conservatives • consumer activist • Consumer Movement • Council of Economic Advisers • Criticism • David Demarest • defendant • Democracy • democratic national committee • disloyalty • disloyalty allegations • disloyalty charges • Dorothy Kenyon • Economic Reform • Economic Security • egalitarianism • Elizabeth Bentley • Employment • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Equal Rights • Esther Peterson • federal employee loyalty program • Federal Security Agency • Fellow traveller • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • Frances Perkins • free-market economic policy • General Counsel • Government • Harry S. Truman • Headline • hostility • House Un-American Activities Committee • Housing authority • industrial unionism • Informant • J. B. Matthews • Jews • Labor Movement • Labour movement • lawyer • League for Industrial Democracy • League of Women Shoppers • left feminists • leftism • leftist views • left-wing politics • Legislation • Leon Keyserling • loyalty defendant • loyalty defendants • loyalty investigations • Loyalty Program • Lyndon B. Johnson • Marshall Plan • Mary Dublin Keyserling • McCarthyism • Mental Health • Nathaniel Weyl • National Consumers League • National Labor Relations Act • National Labor Relations Board • national Lawyers Guild • national security • National Woman's Party • National Youth Administration • New Deal • New Deal policymaking • newspaper • noncommunist leftist • nonfeminist leftists • Norman Thomas • Office of Civilian Defense • Office of Price Administration • Oral History • organized consumerism • Pauli Murray • perjury • Personal Relationships • physical health • political center • political centrists • Political Discourse • Political Party • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • Progressive reform • progressivism • public confidence • Public housing • pure feminists • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Red-baiting • redistributive policies • Red Scare • Resignation • Richard Nixon • right-wing politics • roosevelt administration • salary • Second Red Scare • Sexism • sexual emancipation • Social Democracy • Socialism • socialists • social liberalism • soviet espionage • Soviet Union • spouse • Subversion • Subversive Activities Control Board • Supervisor • Trade Union • truman administration • un-american • Unemployment • UNESCO • United States • United States Department of State • U.S. Women's Bureau • welfare • Welfare State • white male supremacy • Whittaker Chambers • William Remington • women-only organizations • Working Class • Works Progress Administration • World War II |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4008-4525-4 / 1400845254 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-4525-5 / 9781400845255 |
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