Ebook {Epub PDF} No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities by Ellen Schrecker






















Yet what makes Senator McCarthy a symbol of evil for Schrecker is not his demagogic excess but his opposition to Communism, a point she forthrightly puts forth in her book No Ivory Tower.  · Ellen Schrecker's award-winning and highly-acclaimed No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor during the 's affected the nation's colleges and universities. She describes how the hundreds of professors called before the investigating committees of the McCarthy era confronted the same dilemma most other witnesses had to face, d/5. No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor affected the nation's college teachers, administrators, trustees, and students. As Ellen Schrecker shows, the hundreds of professors who were called before HUAC and otehr committees confronted the same dilemma most other witnesses had bltadwin.ru by:


NO IVORY TOWER McCarthyism and the Universities. By Ellen W. Schrecker. pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $ DURING the late 's and 's, several hundred college professors. The story of McCarthyism's traumatic impact on government employees and Hollywood screenwriters during the s is all too familiar, but what happened on college and university campuses during this period is barely known. No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor affected the nation's college teachers, administrators, trustees, and students. Read "Ellen W. Schrecker. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. $ (cloth) (Reviewed by Benjamin Harris), Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips.


No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Schrecker, Ellen W. The effects of McCarthyism on U.S. colleges are considered, with a focus on the response of administrators and faculty members to the anti-Communist furor of the s and s. Perspectives on McCarthyism as a political process are offered, along with an explanation of how it gained so much power. NO IVORY TOWER: McCARTHYISM AND THE UNI­ VERSITIES. Ellen W. Schrecker.' New York, N.Y.: Ox­ ford University Press. Pp. $ John C Chalberg2 Heroic behavior was a rare commodity during the brief heyday of Senator Joe McCarthy. Without "naming names," let's look at the record. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. New York: Oxford University Press, Pp. viii, $ | History of Education Quarterly | Cambridge Core. Ellen W. Schrecker.

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