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050 00 $aE743.5.M36$bL53 2004
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100 1 $aLichtman, Robert M.,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003035636
245 10 $aDeadly farce :$bHarvey Matusow and the informer system in the McCarthy era /$cRobert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $aviii, 227 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-211) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the informers' era -- Birth of a party member -- The making of an informer -- Hitting the big time -- Blacklists and election campaigns -- Fruits of triumph -- Mixed messages -- Matusow's odyssey -- Writing and recanting -- At center stage -- Paying the piper -- Four decades of aftermath -- Epilogue : a note on the historians.
520 1 $a"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 he recanted his testimony. His story illuminates a disturbing time in American history, one with renewed relevance today." "Matusow was easily the most flamboyant of the "professional" ex-Communists, an aspiring celebrity informer who considered himself "booked" by Congressional committees not just to testify, but to entertain. He testified that Communists fostered loose sex, taught politicized Mother Goose rhymes to small children, and tried to infiltrate the Boy Scouts. He also named more than 200 people as Communists and was a prosecution witness in major criminal cases." "Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen draw on FBI records, court transcripts, personal interviews, private papers, and other primary sources, most never before utilized, to describe the unusual role of ex-Communist informer-witnesses during the McCarthy era."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMatusow, Harvey,$d1926-2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87858326
650 0 $aInformers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aEx-communists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aFalse testimony$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAnti-communist movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101061
650 0 $aCommunism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120903
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140466
700 1 $aCohen, Ronald D.,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79008453
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003011714.html
852 00 $bglx$hE743.5.M36$iL53 2004