Book chapter
Red Scare Politics and the Suppression of Left-Feminism: The Loyalty Investigation of Mary Dublin Keyserling
Liberty and Justice for All?, pp.51-90
University of Massachusetts Press
01/26/2012
Abstract
On february 9, 1952, speaking at a Lincoln’s Day dinner in Wheeling, West Virginia, where two years earlier to the day he had dramatically launched his campaign against Communists in government, Senator Joseph McCarthy attacked President Harry S. Truman’s chief economic adviser, Leon Keyserling, and his wife, Mary Dublin Keyserling, who worked in the Department of Commerce. Not only had an informant remembered Leon as sympathetic to the Communist program, McCarthy announced, but Mary once belonged to ten “Communist front” groups. Leon Keyserling, who had helped draft major pieces of the New Deal before becoming Truman’s adviser, brushed off the
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Red Scare Politics and the Suppression of Left-Feminism: The Loyalty Investigation of Mary Dublin Keyserling
- Creators
- Landon R. Y. Storrs
- Contributors
- Kathleen G. Donohue (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Liberty and Justice for All?, pp.51-90
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/26/2012
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984278130002771
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