Part I: The hearings. The threshold -- The stooge Grebanier -- Coudertism -- Vichy's lawyer? -- Part II: Class war. The Dewey trial -- The educational front -- Far from the ivory tower -- Part III: The mortal storm. Bad faith -- CCNY -- Flirting with the right -- Communism on trial -- Aftermath -- Conclusion: The Coudert legacy.
Summary
This work recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of 'bad faith' and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.
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