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Many Are the Crimes

The period of McCarthyism brought strong anti-communist campaign in the United States which started in the 1940s and ended in the 1950s . This era was also known as the Second Red Scare . There were fears of Communist infiltration on American organizations and espionage by Soviet agents (Fried , 124

It was a troubled time during the McCarthy era where many Americans where charged of being Communists or being Communist sympathizers . Many of them went through a series of investigations

and interrogations by government committees and agencies . These investigations were directed at individuals who work for the government , those in the entertainment business , union members and educators . Although evidences were weak and often exaggerated , suspicions were given more weight . As a result , many Americans lost their jobs and some were even incarcerated (Fried , 150

In Ellen Schrecker 's book Many Are the Crimes , the author describes the persecution of the Communist Party in the U .S . from the 1920s until the 1950s . Schrecker believed that McCarthyism contributed to the downfall of Communism in America and thrusted the country into a gulf of right-wing sentiments which plagues the U .S . until now ( Reeves , Are You Now .A new study of McCarthyism and the legacy of HUAC , 1998

The first three chapters of Schrecker 's book explain the Communist Party 's emergence in the 1930s in America . She explained why the Communist Party was susceptible to attacks by the U .S . government . The second chapter Red Baiters , Inc ' is an extensive analysis of people and institutions which characterized anticommunism in the 1920s and 1930s (Schrecker , 41

The author outlines Franklin D . Roosevelt 's stance on Communism According to Schrecker , President Roosevelt 's approach to Communism was non-ideological (p . 87 , there were occasions that he did not pay attention to the existence of the Communist Party and there were times that he supported political suppression . Roosevelt authorized the FBI under J . Edgar Hoover to look into the Communist Party 's movement because they saw it as a threat to national security (p . 89

In Chapter 4 , Schrecker discusses the U .S . government 's propaganda that the Communist Party was being influenced by Moscow

In Chapter 5 , the author talks about how Americans saw Communism as a national threat through subversion , espionage and sabotage (p . 181 . In the third part of Ellen Schrecker 's book , explains the instruments ' of anti-communism and how the FBI under J . Edgar Hoover used different tactics to purge communists in America by wiretapping and surveillance (p . 239

Schrecker discussed the role of Senator John McCarthy in the anti-communist crusade , and his disregard for civil liberties (p . 265

The last chapters of the book Many Are the Crimes , Schrecker talks about the experiences of Clinton Jencks and members of the workers union and how they were persecuted and eventually lost their jobs . Schrecker explains the impact of McCarthyism in the American society , how it destroyed the left ' and paralyzed the Communist Party...