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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
Publication Year1996
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Espionage, Intelligence & Espionage
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
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-022320
ReviewsAs Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh illustrate in their fascinating study, the historical record is often nuanced, ambiguous, and ironic. Journal of American History, The Amerasia Spy Case is a fascinating account of espionage and intrigue. It makes an invaluable contribution to the literature of American legal history by explaining why a case that might have given rise to one of America's most important political trials never made it to the courtroom. -- H-Law, 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, Anyone with an open mind and a taste for deception will find [this book] valuable, even gripping. New York Times Book Review, This academic study is uncommon for its liveliness and important for all students of the Cold War at home. Kirkus Reviews, This is an absorbing book, built on solid sources, engagingly written, and balanced. It deserves wide attention.Pacific Historical Review, If you are too young to have lived through McCarthyism and can take a detached view, you will find The Amerasia Spy Case an excellent history of the early Cold War. If you are a liberal who still froths at the mouth when you think of McCarthy, this book will be painful, but you ought to read it. -- Philadelphia Inquirer, Anyone with an open mind and a taste for deception will find [this book] valuable, even gripping.New York Times Book Review, Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh have devoted great effort to probing the subversive role of American communists. For them, the Amerasia spy case of 1945 is central to understanding the resulting domestic conflict over communism at home and abroad. -- Chicago Tribune, This is an absorbing book, built on solid sources, engagingly written, and balanced. It deserves wide attention. -- Pacific Historical Review, This academic study is uncommon for its liveliness and important for all students of the Cold War at home.Kirkus Reviews, Klehr and Radosh argue convincingly that the near collapse of the Amerasia case was due in part to an official cover-up. -- Times Literary Supplement, Klehr and Radosh provide an estimable account of what was in fact a small spy case but which, they convincingly argue, had large consequences. As such, The Amerasia Spy Case provides an important window onto the formative first days of the politics of the Cold War. -- American Political Science 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, [An] intriguing account of an all but forgotten episode in Cold War history. . . . This academic study is uncommon for its liveliness and important for all students of the Cold War at home. -- Kirkus Reviews, [The] wonderful material enables readers to see many of the participants with their pants down. . . . Anyone with an open mind and a taste for deception will find [this book] valuable, even gripping. -- New York Times Book Review
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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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