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Amerasia Spy Case : Prelude to Mccarthyism by Ronald Radosh and Harvey Klehr (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
ISBN-100807822450
ISBN-139780807822456
eBay Product ID (ePID)380597
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleAmerasia Spy Case : Prelude to Mccarthyism
Number of Pages280 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, Espionage
Publication Year1996
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, True Crime, History
AuthorRonald Radosh, Harvey Klehr
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-022320
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsAnyone with an open mind and a taste for deception will find [this book] valuable, even gripping.New York Times Book Review, This is an absorbing book, built on solid sources, engagingly written, and balanced. It deserves wide attention. Pacific Historical Review, As Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh illustrate in their fascinating study, the historical record is often nuanced, ambiguous, and ironic. Journal of American History, This academic study is uncommon for its liveliness and important for all students of the Cold War at home.Kirkus Reviews, This academic study is uncommon for its liveliness and important for all students of the Cold War at home. Kirkus Reviews, Anyone with an open mind and a taste for deception will find [this book] valuable, even gripping. New York Times Book Review, This is an absorbing book, built on solid sources, engagingly written, and balanced. It deserves wide attention.Pacific Historical Review, As Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh illustrate in their fascinating study, the historical record is often nuanced, ambiguous, and ironic.Journal of American History
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Dewey Decimal973.918
SynopsisThe Amerasia affair was the first of the great spy cases of the postwar era. In June 1945, six people associated with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI and accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. But only two, the editor of Amerasia and a minor government employee, were convicted of any offense, and their convictions were merely for unauthorized possession of government documents. Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh provide a full-scale history of the first public drama featuring charges that respectable American citizens had spied for the Communists. The Amerasia case remained a staple in American political life for the next half-decade. It provoked charges by conservatives of a cover-up of extensive Communist infiltration of the government and accusations by liberals of a witch-hunt designed to intimidate the press. And it played a significant role in the hearings held to examine Senator Joseph McCarthy's charge that the State Department had been infiltrated by a clique of 'card carrying Communists.' Klehr and Radosh, the first researchers to have obtained the FBI files on the case, show that a cover-up was indeed orchestrated by prominent government officials., In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms "econocide." This action, he argues, was detrimental to Britain's economic interests at a time when British slavery was actually at the height of its potential. Originally published in 1977, Drescher's work was instrumental in undermining the economic determinist interpretation of abolitionism that had dominated historical discourse for decades following World War II. For this second edition, Drescher has written a new preface, reflecting on the historiography of the British slave trade since this book's original publication., The Amerasia affair was the first of the great spy cases of the postwar era. In June 1945, six people associated with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI and accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. But only two, the editor of Amerasia and a minor government employee, were convicted of any offense, and their convictions were merely for unauthorized possession of government documents. Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh provide a full-scale history of the first public drama featuring charges that respectable American citizens had spied for the Communists.The Amerasia case remained a staple in American political life for the next half-decade. It provoked charges by conservatives of a cover-up of extensive Communist infiltration of the government and accusations by liberals of a witch-hunt designed to intimidate the press. And it played a significant role in the hearings held to examine Senator Joseph McCarthy's charge that the State Department had been infiltrated by a clique of 'card carrying Communists.' Klehr and Radosh, the first researchers to have obtained the FBI files on the case, show that a cover-up was indeed orchestrated by prominent government officials.
LC Classification Number95-22320 [E]
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