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The Cold War and Internal Security Collection (CWIS): Bibliography

CWIS Bibliography

Books related to the CWIS Collection in the Joyner Library stacks (2nd and 3rd floors)

 

 

 

1. Congressional Investigations of Alleged Subversion

Carr, Robert K. The House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1945-1950. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .C3)

Goodman, Walter. The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .G64)

O'Reilly, Kenneth. Hoover and the Un-Americans : the FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .O73 1983)

Taylor, Telford. Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigation. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. (Joyner Stacks: JK1123.A2 T3)

 

 

2. McCarthyism and the Red Scare

Caute, David. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .C35 1978)

Haynes, John Earl. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. (Joyner Stacks: HX83 .H36 1996)

Morgan, Ted. Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Random House, 2003. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .M578 2003)

Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy so Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 1983. (Joyner Stacks: E748.M143 O73 1983)

Schrecker, Ellen. The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (2nd ed.) Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002. (Joyner Stacks: E743 .S377 2002)

Schrecker, Ellen. Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .S37 1998)

 

 

3. American Communism and the Soviet Union

Howe, Irving and Lewis Coser. The American Communist Party, a Critical History. New York: Praeger, 1962. (Joyner Stacks: JK2391.C5 H68 1962)

Isserman, Maurice. Which Side Were You on?: The American Communist Party During the Second World War. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. (Joyner Stacks: JK2391.C5 I83)

Jaffe, Philip J. The Rise and Fall of American Communism. New York: Horizon Press, 1975. (Joyner Stacks: HX83 .J3)

Klehr, Harvey. The Communist Experience in America: A Political and Social History. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2010. (Joyner Stacks: HX83 .K5495 2010)

Klehr, Harvey and John Earl Haynes. The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. (Joyner Stacks: HX83.K549 1992)

Taylor, Gregory S. The History of the North Carolina Communist Party. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2009. (Joyner NC Stacks: HX91.N8 T39 2009)

 

 

4. Soviet Espionage in America

Andrew, Christopher and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York: Basic Books, 1999. (Joyner Stacks: UB251.S65 A63 1999)

Haslam, Jonathan. Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. (Joyner Stacks: JN6529 .I6 H37 2015)

Haynes, John Earl, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev. Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. (Joyner Stacks: UB271.R9 H389 2009)

Weinstein, Allen and Alexander Vassiliev. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America–The Stalin Era. New York: Random House, 1999. (Joyner Stacks: UB271.R9 W45 1999

 

 

5. Countersubversives, the Far Right and the Brown Scare

Cunningham, David. Klansville, U.S.A. The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. (Joyner Stacks: HS2330 .K63 C75 2013)

Powers, Richard Gid. Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. New York: Free Press, 1995. (Joyner Stacks: E743.5 .P65 1995)

Ribuffo, Leo P. The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983. (Joyner Stacks: E806 .R47 1983)

Smith, Geoffrey S. To Save a Nation; American Countersubversives, the New Deal, and the Coming of World War II. New York: Basic Books, 1973. (Joyner Stacks: E806 .S684)