Deadly farce : Harvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era / Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen
- Author:
- Lichtman, Robert M., 1933-
- Published:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2004
- Physical Description:
- viii, 227 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Cohen, Ronald D., 1940-
- Contents:
- Introduction : the informers' era -- Birth of a party member -- The making of an informer -- Hitting the big time -- Blacklists and election campaigns -- Fruits of triumph -- Mixed messages -- Matusow's odyssey -- Writing and recanting -- At center stage -- Paying the piper -- Four decades of aftermath -- Epilogue : a note on the historians.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0252028864 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-211) and index.
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