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No ivory tower : McCarthyism and the universities
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- Creator
- Ellen W. Schrecker
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986
- Physical Details
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- viii, 437 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195035575, 0195035577
- OCLC
- ocm13425990
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 343-356.
- "An excellent advertisement for the institution" : the development of academic freedom, 1886-1919 -- "In the camp of the people" : academic Communists in the 1930s and 1940s -- "Conduct unbecoming" : the political repression of academic radicals, 1932-1942 -- "A matter of ethical hygiene" : the exclusion of communists from academic life after World War II -- "Drawing the line" : the academy's early response to congressional investigations and right-wind attacks -- "A very fertile field for investigation" : congressional comitteess, unfriendly witnessess, and the academic community -- "Frankly and freely" : investigating committees and the academic witnesses in the spring of 1953 -- "The slow treatment" : academic committees and their unfriendly witnesses -- "A source of friction" : the quieter dismissals of left-wing teachers -- "A very fifficult time of it" : the academic blacklist -- "Without guidance" : the academic profession responds to McCathryism