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Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath
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Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath / Bob Blauner.
ISBN
9780804759229 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804759227 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xx, 307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 10, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
McCarthyism and the crisis of liberalism
Anticommunism and academic freedom between two wars. A most contradictory history
From world war to cold war
UCLA and the origins of the loyalty oath
A faculty divided. The faculty resists Sproul's oath
New leaders : Caughey, Lehman, and the NASE
The "sign or get out" ultimatum
From the great double cross to the alumni compromise
The hearings at Berkeley
The hearings at UCLA
War in Korea and victory in the courts. Korea changed everything
Regents fire the nonsigners
Warren's new oath : worse than Sproul's?
McCarthy defeated, but his -ism lingers on
How the oath changed a university, a nation, and peoples' lives
Epilogue : from the loyalty oath to the free speech movement.
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