The first part of the book presents a detailed analysis of the John Birch Society. The second part examines other groups of similar persuasion. The final part suggests methods of combating extremism-whether of the left or the right-that are appropriate to a free people.
In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.
After Eisenhower took office, the United States continued in what came to be called the “Joe McCarthy” era, after the junior senator from Wisconsin. McCarthy was noted as the most visible, but not the only, Congressional “red baiter ...
Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Anne Applebaum captures in the pages of this exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning.
Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.
This compelling book describes how everyday people courageously survived under repressive Communist regimes until the voices and actions of rebellious individuals resulted in the fall of the Iron Curtain in...
Provides the dramatic history of Winston Churchill's 1946 trip to Fulton, Missouri, where he delivered his Iron Curtain Speech--a speech which served to fundamentally define the dangers of Soviet totalitarian Communism.
Some of the general works that briefly present the history of socialist Yugoslavia are John R. Lampe, ... On the environmental history of the Cold War, see J. R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger, eds., Environmental Histories of the Cold ...
In Gaming the Iron Curtain, Jaroslav Švelch offers the first social history of gaming and game design in 1980s Czechoslovakia, and the first book-length treatment of computer gaming in any country of the Soviet bloc. Švelch describes how ...
The ultimately unsuccessful American war of espionage and sabotage carried out behind the Iron Curtain in the wake of the Soviet occupation is laid bare in this dramatic book. Reprint.
This book is unique in that it not only discusses the internal decay and the external disasters which threaten the life of American people (in fact, of ALL the people), but diagnoses the growing cancer of which they are merely the symptoms.