Red Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas
Red Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas
by Don Carleton introduction by John Henry Faulk
University of Texas Press, 2014 Paper: 978-0-292-75855-1 | eISBN: 978-0-292-75856-8 Library of Congress Classification F394.H857C37 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 976.41411
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Don E. Carleton is Executive Director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds the university’s J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History. Carleton has published eight books, including Conversations with Cronkite, and he was executive producer of the award-winning PBS documentary When I Rise.
REVIEWS
Red Scare was first published in 1985. Its message is very important in this day of groups thinking others are unpatriotic and wanting to do away with traditional values. Differing opinions do not mean others are un-American and the book makes that point very well.
— Jerry Turner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
1. A Nervous New Civilization
2. Voices from the Left
3. Fear and Money
4. Red Scare Activists Organize
5. The Red Scare Begins
6. The Red Scare and the Schools
7. The Victim Is a Symbol: The George W. Ebey Affair