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Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
Why this matters here
Ellen Schrecker’s Many Are the Crimes documents the postwar U.S. loyalty-security state, congressional investigations including HUAC’s Hollywood hearings, and the reorganization of dissent as contamination. When Authority Is Misread uses that history for how investigation theater reassigned questions into loyalty tests—sorting signals about sides and oaths rather than open fact-finding. Schrecker establishes the McCarthy-era record; the book asks when the form of inquiry survives while its purpose becomes attendance and allegiance.
