No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities

by Ellen Schrecker

Book Overview

The story of McCarthyism's traumatic impact on government employees and Hollywood screenwriters during the 1950s 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. As Ellen Schrecker shows, the hundreds of professors who were called...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195035577
• ISBN13: 9780195035575
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.