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The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the
desire to control much of South-East Europe. Employing previously
unseen sources, Marvin Fried provides the first complete analysis
of the Monarchy's war aims in the Balkans and tells the story of
its imperialist ambitions.
The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the
desire to control much of South-East Europe. Employing previously
unseen sources, Marvin Fried provides the first complete analysis
of the Monarchy's war aims in the Balkans and tells the story of
its imperialist ambitions.
This new biography of Joseph R. McCarthy shows how the Wisconsin
Senator's campaign against American Communists prized sensation
above truth. McCarthy often put aside his hunt for Reds while he
pursued his anti-communist critics. He fought foes not just with
noisy accusations but with covert gossip. He was gullible enough
that some con artists managed to lure him on wild goose chases. The
man who charged others with being "dupes" was sometimes one
himself. Historian Fried's book builds on over a decade's research
in a multitude of sources, many of them newly opened--not just
McCarthy's own papers but those of forty-seven Senate colleagues,
plus records of journalists, observers, and activists. It brings to
light such theatrical episodes as a CIA "op" against McCarthy as
well as Joe's quixotic search for Soviet security chief Lavrenti
Beria in Spain. The resulting multi-focal perspective on the
political and institutional setting in which McCarthy operated with
such abandon is full of drama.
As the saying goes, everyone loves a parade. But never more so than in 1950s America, when flag waving, martial pomp, and staged ceremony were presented and often perceived as America's last best defence against the communist threat. Historian Richard Fried, author of Nightmare in Red, ploughs new ground with this exploration of the often absurd lengths the average citizen in McCarthyite America went to to help shore up patriotism and fend off the threat of the Red Menace.
Der Dyspepsiealmanach bietet zusammen mit dem dazugeh-rigen Video,
aber auchallein eine einfache und gleichzeitig wissenschaftlich
fundierte Einf}hrung in die Problematik der funktionellen
Dyspepsien. Anhand der verschiedenen Dyspepsietypen werden die
Fragen des klinischen Alltags praxisnah demonstriert. Das
Wesentliche ist in schematischen ]bersichten und Graphiken
zusammengefa t.
According to newspaper headlines and television pundits, the cold
war ended many months ago; the age of Big Two confrontation is
over. But forty years ago, Americans were experiencing the
beginnings of another era--of the fevered anti-communism that came
to be known as McCarthyism. During this period, the Cincinnati Reds
felt compelled to rename themselves briefly the "Redlegs" to avoid
confusion with the other reds, and one citizen in Indiana
campaigned to have The Adventures of Robin Hood removed from
library shelves because the story's subversive message encouraged
robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. These developments
grew out of a far-reaching anxiety over communism that
characterized the McCarthy Era.
Richard Fried's Nightmare in Red offers a riveting and
comprehensive account of this crucial time. He traces the second
Red Scare's antecedents back to the 1930s, and presents an engaging
narrative about the many different people who became involved in
the drama of the anti-communist fervor, from the New Deal era and
World War II, through the early years of the cold war, to the peak
of McCarthyism, and beyond McCarthy's censure to the decline of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1960s. Along the
way, we meet the familiar figures of the period--Presidents
Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, and, of
course, the Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. But more
importantly, Fried reveals the wholesale effect of McCarthyism on
the lives of thousands of ordinary people, from teachers and
lawyers to college students, factory workers, and janitors.
Together with coverage of such famous incidents as the ordeal of
the Hollywood Ten (which led to the entertainment world's notorious
blacklist) and the Alger Hiss case, Fried also portrays a wealth of
little-known but telling episodes involving victims and victimizers
of anti-communist politics at the state and local levels.
Providing the most complete history of the rise and fall of the
phenomenon known as McCarthyism, Nightmare in Red shows that it
involved far more than just Joe McCarthy.
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