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John Earl Haynes - Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics - 9780521857383 - V9780521857383
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Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics

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Description for Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics Hardback. This book, first published in 2006, is a review of the major spy cases of the early Cold War. Series Editor(s): Critchlow, Donald T. Series: Cambridge Essential Histories. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late 1940s and 1950s more than a series of spy trials that revealed that American Communists had co-operated with Soviet espionage against the United States and had assisted in stealing the technical secrets of the atomic bomb as well as penetrating the US State Department, the Treasury Department, and the White House itself. This book, first published in 2006, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Essential Histories
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521857383
SKU
V9780521857383
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About John Earl Haynes
John Earl Haynes is a 20th Century Political Historian in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is the author or editor of four books: Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s (editor, 1998); Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism ... Read more

Reviews for Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics
'… very good, both as an introductory text and as an example of the promise that comparative study holds for expanding our understanding of espionage, intelligence, and the political environment in which they are carried out. … Haynes and Klehr are among the best qualified historians to look at Cold War spy cases.' Studies in Intelligence

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