Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, the Legless Veteran

by Robert Justin Goldstein

Book Overview

During the Allies' invasion of Italy in the thick of World War II, American soldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and lost both of his legs. Back home, rehabilitated and given a job at the Veterans' Administration, he was soon to learn that his battles were far from over. In 1948, in the throes of the post-war Red Scare, the hysteria over perceived Communist threats that marked the Cold War, the government moved to fire Kutcher because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070062225X
• ISBN13: 9780700622252
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"