An American Stand - Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972 (Paperback)

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president of the United States. An American Stand: Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972 explores her engagement with the "masculine" issue of national defense. An unyielding foe of global communism, this Republican senator was the first female Cold Warrior. During the Korean War, she voiced strident anti-communist rhetoric in her newspaper column. Her energetic support for nuclear superiority in the fifties and sixties caused Nikita Khrushchev to describe her as "Satan in the guise of a woman." In the face of growing opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam, Smith remained committed to a clear stand against violent communist expansion. This book examines the exposition of the communist "menace" and the Cold War as a fight between good and evil without sanitization of communist leaders' ruthless actions. For Smith and many others, America's fight against global communism, despite appalling sacrifices of lives and money, made sense because they believed that communism was a vicious, expansionist system with little respect for human life and freedom.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	Eric R. Crouse
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-8184-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-7391-8184-X
Barcode:	9780739181843

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