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The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (Hardcover)
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The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
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In 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.
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