Author : David Everitt
Release : 2007
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis A Shadow of Red by : David Everitt
Download or read book A Shadow of Red written by David Everitt. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the mayhem caused by a handful of anti-Communist watchdogs who in 1950 created the blacklist in radio and TV, David Everitt makes clear that the conflict over free speech was not a simplistic morality tale of persecutors and the persecuted, as routinely portrayed. The blacklisters, though excessive and destructive, were not deluded hunters of an imaginary menace. A Shadow of Red is a cautionary tale about civil liberties in a time of emergency, and a vivid example of the polarized political battle over who controls the media, a battle that continues to this day.