Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade

by Jeff Broadwater

Book Overview

Jeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administration's response to America's postwar Red Scare. He looks beyond Senator Joseph McCarthy's confrontations with Eisenhower to examine the administration's own anti-Communist crusade. Exploring the complex relationship between partisan politics and cold war tensions, Broadwater demonstrates that virulent anticommunism, as well as opposition to it, often cut across party and ideological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865133
• ISBN13: 9780807865132
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"