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Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London, where they find creative freedom and fight the injustices of the Red Scare. Nineteen-fifties America is bright and full of promise, and Phoebe Adler, a New Yorker brimming with talent and ambition, is forging her way as the rarest of things: a female television writer in Hollywood. But fears of a growing Red Menace cloud...
2) McCarthy
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1953, and the piece of talking furniture called TV is still a novelty in America's living rooms. On it, Sen. Joseph McCarthy uses fear, falsehooods and belligerence to become arguably the most powerful man in the land. On it , newsman Edward R. Murrow, who's had his fill of the senator's tactics, fights back.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
597 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on first-ever access to his personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings."--
Series
Criterion collection volume 566
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages cm
Description
"In Ike and McCarthy, David A Nichols shows how the tension between the two men escalated. In a direct challenge to Eisenhower, McCarthy alleged that the US Army was harboring communists and launched an investigation. But the senator had unwittingly signed his own political death warrant. The White House employed surrogates to conduct a clandestine campaign against McCarthy and was not above using information about the private lives of McCarthy?s...
10) The front
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Told through a screenplay format and comprised almost entirely of quotes derived from primary sources, this groundbreaking book recounts McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists in America during the 1950s Red Scare.
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