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Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era
Deadly Farce Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era
Author: Robert M. Lichtman, Ronald Cohen
No issue so possessed the nation in the first half of the 1950s as alleged Communist subversion in the United States. Deadly Farce presents Harvey Matusow, a young Bronx "wise guy" who became a Communist Party member, an undercover FBI informer inside the Party, and then a leading witness for the government during the McCarthy era--until ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780252075162
ISBN-10: 0252075161
Publication Date: 3/18/2008
Pages: 248
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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