The Haunted Fifties
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of political journalism, The Haunted Fifties chronicles I. F. Stone's incisive weekly dispatches from one of the most paranoid and repressive decades in American history. Written during the height of McCarthyism, Stone's collected columns uncover the hypocrisy, fear-mongering, and civil liberties abuses that defined the Cold War era, targeting government overreach, nuclear brinkmanship, and the silencing of dissent with unflinching clarity. The tone is urgent and combative, reflecting the voice of a lone independent journalist who refused to be intimidated by the political climate surrounding him. Stone argues with razor-sharp precision that the true threat to American democracy came not from foreign enemies, but from the domestic forces of conformity and repression. A vital primary document of mid-century American political life, this collection remains as relevant and electrifying today as when its pages were first written.
Author: I. F. Stone
Format: Hardback
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark work of political journalism, The Haunted Fifties chronicles I. F. Stone's incisive weekly dispatches from one of the most paranoid and repressive decades in American history. Written during the height of McCarthyism, Stone's collected columns uncover the hypocrisy, fear-mongering, and civil liberties abuses that defined the Cold War era, targeting government overreach, nuclear brinkmanship, and the silencing of dissent with unflinching clarity. The tone is urgent and combative, reflecting the voice of a lone independent journalist who refused to be intimidated by the political climate surrounding him. Stone argues with razor-sharp precision that the true threat to American democracy came not from foreign enemies, but from the domestic forces of conformity and repression. A vital primary document of mid-century American political life, this collection remains as relevant and electrifying today as when its pages were first written.