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Discrediting the Red Scare - The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "TheLegless Veteran" (Paperback)
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Discrediting the Red Scare - The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "TheLegless Veteran" (Paperback)
Series: Landmark Law Cases and American Society
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During the Allies' invasion of Italy inthe thick of World War II,
Americansoldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and
lost both of his legs. Back home, rehabilitated and given a job at
the Veterans' Administration, he was soon to learn that his battles
were far from over. In 1948, in the throes of the post-warRed
Scare, the hysteria over perceived Communist threats that marked
the Cold War, the government moved to fire Kutcher because of his
membership in a small, left-wing group that had once
espousedrevolutionary sentiments. Kutcher's eightyear legal odyssey
to clear his name and assert his First Amendment rights, described
in full for the first time in this book, is at once a cautionary
tale in a new period of patriotic one-upmanship, and a story of
tenacious patriotism in its own right. The son of Russian
immigrants, James Kutcher came of age during the Great Depression.
Robbed of his hope of attending college or finding work of any
kind, he joined the Socialist Workers Party, left-wing and strongly
anti-Soviet, in his hometown of Newark. When his membership in the
SWP came back to haunt him at the height of the Red Scare, Kutcher
took up the fight against efforts to punish people for their
thoughts, ideas, speech, and associations. As a man who had fought
for his country and paid a great price, had never done nything that
could be construed as treasonous, held a low-level clerical
position utterly unconnected with national security, and was the
sole support of his elderly parents; Kutcher cut an especially
sympathetic figure in the drama of Cold War witch-hunts. In a
series of confrontations, in what were highly publicized as the
"case of the legless veteran," the federal government tried to oust
Kutcher from his menial Veterans' dministration job, take away his
World War II disability benefits, and to evict him and his family
from their federally subsidized housing.Discrediting the Red Scare
tells the story of his long legal struggle in the face of
government persecution-that redoubled after every setback until the
bitter end
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