Deadly Farce Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the Mccarthy Era |
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| Author:
| Lichtman, Robert M.
Cohen, Ronald |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-07516-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $41.99 |
Book Description:
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No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Deadly Farce presents Harvey Matusow, a young Bronx ''wise guy'' who became a Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until he ......
No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Deadly Farce presents Harvey Matusow, a young Bronx ''wise guy'' who became a Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until he ......