No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities

by Ellen Schrecker

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Ellen Schrecker's award-winning and highly-acclaimed No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor during the 1950's affected the nation's colleges and universities. She describes how the hundreds of professors called before the investigating committees of the McCarthy era confronted the same dilemma most other witnesses had to face, deciding whether to cooperate with the committees and "name names" or to refuse...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195056639

ISBN13:9780195056631

Release Date:November 1986

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Americas College & University Education Education & Reference History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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