Resisting McCarthyism : to sign or not to sign California's loyalty oath / Bob Blauner

Blauner, Robert ; Blauner, Bob

Englisch

Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, c 2009

XX, 307 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - McCarthyism and the crisis of liberalism -- Anticommunism and academic freedom between two wars. A most contradictory history -- From world war to cold war -- UCLA and the origins of the oath -- Faculty divided. The faculty resists Sproul's oath -- New leaders : Caughey, Lehman, and the NASE -- The "sign or get out" ultimatum -- From the great double cross to the alumni compromise -- The hearings at Berkeley -- The hearings at UCLA -- War in Korea and victory in the courts. Korea changed everything -- Nonsigners fired and go to court -- Warren's new oath : worse than Sproul's? -- McCarthy defeated, but his -ism lingers on -- How the oath changed a university, a nation, and peoples' lives -- Epilogue : from the loyalty oath to the free speech movement

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McCarthyism and the crisis of liberalism -- Anticommunism and academic freedom between two wars. A most contradictory history -- From world war to cold war -- UCLA and the origins of the oath -- Faculty divided. The faculty resists Sproul's oath -- New leaders : Caughey, Lehman, and the NASE -- The "sign or get out" ultimatum -- From the great double cross to the alumni compromise -- The hearings at Berkeley -- The hearings at UCLA -- War in Korea and victory in the courts. Korea changed everything -- Nonsigners fired and go to court -- Warren's new oath : worse than Sproul's? -- McCarthy defeated, but his -ism lingers on -- How the oath changed a university, a nation, and peoples' lives -- Epilogue : from the loyalty oath to the free speech movement.

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*MacCarthyismus

*Kalifornien / Antikommunismus / Politischer Eid / Geschichte 1945-1953

*USA / Akademische Freiheit / Liberalismus / Antikommunismus / Geschichte

*McCarthy, Joseph -- 1908-1957

*McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 ; University of California (1868-1952) / History ; Loyalty oaths / California / History / 20th century ; Academic freedom / California / History / 20th century ; Anti-communist movements / California / History / 20th century ; United States / Politics and government / 1945-1953 ; United States / Politics and government / 1953-1961

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Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 378.1/21309794

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AL 18300: A Allgemeines / AL Hochschul- und Universitätswesen / Autonomie und freie Entfaltung

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AL 92350: A Allgemeines / AL Hochschul- und Universitätswesen / Pazifikstaaten (Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii)

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