Table of Contents

Contents: Preface: Little’ Red scares’: anti-Communism and political repression in the United States, 1921-1946, Robert Justin Goldstein; After the Red scare: civil liberties in the era of Harding and Coolidge, Ernest Freeberg; The FBI and the politics of anti-Communism, 1920-1945: a prelude to power, Athan Theoharis; Citizens versus outsiders: anti-Communism at state and local levels, 1921-1946, M.J. Heale; Red herrings? The Fish Committee and anti-Communism in the early Depression years, Alex Goodall; Little Red schoolhouses? Anti-Communists and education in an ’age of conflicts’, Timothy Cain; Fighting the ’Red danger’: employers and anti-Communism, Chad Pearson; Leftward ramparts: labor and anticommunism between the World Wars, Markku Ruotsila; Premature McCarthyism: Spanish Republican aid and the origins of Cold War anti-Communism, Eric Smith; Laying the foundations for the post-World War II Red scare: investigating the left-feminist consumer movement, Landon R.Y. Storrs; The Dies Committee v. the New deal: real Americans and the unending search for un-Americans, Kenneth O’ Reilly; The long Black and Red scare: anti-Communism and the African American freedom struggle, Robbie Lieberman; Shooting rabid dogs: New York’s Rapp-Coudert attack on teachers unions, Stephen Leberstein; The history of the Smith Act and the Hatch Act: anti-Communism and the rise of the conservative coalition in Congress, Rebecca Hill; Index.

About the Author

Robert Justin Goldstein is professor emeritus of political science at Oakland University and currently a research associate at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.

Reviews

'[Little 'Red Scares' is] a welcome addition ... Generations of historians, and volumes such as [this] have done much to expose the invidious ends and disingenuous tactics of American anti-communists.' Reviews in History '...the entire collection is excellent...' Cercles '...Thirteen splendidly written essays... A major contribution of these essays is the way that, both individually and collectively, they reveal the deep layers and wide variety of forms that political repression and anticommunism took in these years, recapturing the vast network of groups and individuals who engaged in such repression, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, and Martin Dies to different state national guards and local police "red squads" to business groups, the American Legion, the Ku Klux Klan, and even the American Federation of Labor.' Journal of American History