Phillip Deery
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253685
- eISBN:
- 9780823261246
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253685.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Set against a backdrop of mounting anticommunism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and psychological effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. From the ...
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Set against a backdrop of mounting anticommunism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and psychological effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they jettisoned some of its tenets. Congressional committees worked in tandem, although not necessarily in collusion, with the FBI, law firms, university administrations, publishing houses, television networks, movie studios, and a legion of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to target “subversive” individuals. By examining real-life experiences at the “ground level,” Red Apple illuminates the human consequences of the widespread paranoia that gripped a nation. It explores how these six activists experienced, responded to, and suffered from one of the most savage assaults on civil liberties in American history. Their collective stories reveal the personal costs of holding dissident political beliefs in the face of intolerance and moral panic that is as relevant today as it was seventy years ago.Less
Set against a backdrop of mounting anticommunism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and psychological effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they jettisoned some of its tenets. Congressional committees worked in tandem, although not necessarily in collusion, with the FBI, law firms, university administrations, publishing houses, television networks, movie studios, and a legion of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to target “subversive” individuals. By examining real-life experiences at the “ground level,” Red Apple illuminates the human consequences of the widespread paranoia that gripped a nation. It explores how these six activists experienced, responded to, and suffered from one of the most savage assaults on civil liberties in American history. Their collective stories reveal the personal costs of holding dissident political beliefs in the face of intolerance and moral panic that is as relevant today as it was seventy years ago.
Joseph B. Raskin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253692
- eISBN:
- 9780823261109
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253692.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit ...
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The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit system did not expand and the people who played a role in the planning process. Emphasis is given to several proposes lines in particular and the impact that those plans had on growth and development of the areas that they would have served. Maps diagramming some of these lines are included. The Routes Not Taken also looks at how the subway and rail system has actually contracted in size, rather than expanded over the past 75 years through the elimination of a number of elevated lines without the construction of underground lines to replace them and the closure of other lines.Less
The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit system did not expand and the people who played a role in the planning process. Emphasis is given to several proposes lines in particular and the impact that those plans had on growth and development of the areas that they would have served. Maps diagramming some of these lines are included. The Routes Not Taken also looks at how the subway and rail system has actually contracted in size, rather than expanded over the past 75 years through the elimination of a number of elevated lines without the construction of underground lines to replace them and the closure of other lines.
Gilya Gerda Schmidt
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823243297
- eISBN:
- 9780823243334
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243297.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Süssen is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of two Jewish families in the village of Süssen, Württemberg, from 1902 to 1941. Coincidentally, two very different Jewish men, cattle ...
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Süssen is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of two Jewish families in the village of Süssen, Württemberg, from 1902 to 1941. Coincidentally, two very different Jewish men, cattle dealer Jakob Lang and industrialist Alfred Ottenheimer established themselves in the village of Süssen in 1902. This micro-history of rural Jewish life chronicles the property of the Langs and the Ottenheimers, their personal inventory, building permits and business ventures. Hugo Lang describes their family’s daily routine, changes under the Nazis including forced labor in Eislingen, and his life in the United States. Shortly after Hugo’s departure for the U.S., his parents, sister, aunts, uncles, and cousins were deported to Riga, where all but three of them perished. Ruth’s search for and joy over discovering family after her liberation tells a very moving tale. Conceived of as a social and cultural history of two Jewish families up to the Holocaust, this study turned into far more than a micro-history of Jewish life in southern Germany. A decade of research in local, regional, and state archives revealed a treasure of documents that eventually evolved into a compelling story of births and deaths, marriages, daily life, business dealings, education, religious practices, community relations, deception, escape, deportation, larceny, murder, and finally requisitions, restitution, and reparations – a very sordid affair.Less
Süssen is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of two Jewish families in the village of Süssen, Württemberg, from 1902 to 1941. Coincidentally, two very different Jewish men, cattle dealer Jakob Lang and industrialist Alfred Ottenheimer established themselves in the village of Süssen in 1902. This micro-history of rural Jewish life chronicles the property of the Langs and the Ottenheimers, their personal inventory, building permits and business ventures. Hugo Lang describes their family’s daily routine, changes under the Nazis including forced labor in Eislingen, and his life in the United States. Shortly after Hugo’s departure for the U.S., his parents, sister, aunts, uncles, and cousins were deported to Riga, where all but three of them perished. Ruth’s search for and joy over discovering family after her liberation tells a very moving tale. Conceived of as a social and cultural history of two Jewish families up to the Holocaust, this study turned into far more than a micro-history of Jewish life in southern Germany. A decade of research in local, regional, and state archives revealed a treasure of documents that eventually evolved into a compelling story of births and deaths, marriages, daily life, business dealings, education, religious practices, community relations, deception, escape, deportation, larceny, murder, and finally requisitions, restitution, and reparations – a very sordid affair.
G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231201
- eISBN:
- 9780823240791
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823231201.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book brings together a collection of chapters offering a fresh examination of American participation in World War II, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal ...
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This book brings together a collection of chapters offering a fresh examination of American participation in World War II, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world. The book also tackles new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war—the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The chapters cover crucial moments such as: Franklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal, if at times indecisive, role in leading the United States; the miscalculation of Japanese intentions by American diplomats and the failure of deterrence in preventing war in the Pacific; the experiences and contributions of conscientious objectors to American society in this time of total war; the decision of the United States to fight with an ineffective battle tank at the expense of American lives; the Coast Guard's contribution to the D-Day Landing; and how elite foreign policy organizations prior to V-J Day sought to influence American occupation policies regarding Japan.Less
This book brings together a collection of chapters offering a fresh examination of American participation in World War II, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War II, the role of the American military in the Allied victory, and war-time planning for the postwar world. The book also tackles new inquiries into life on the home front and America's commemoration of one of the most controversial and climatic events of the war—the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The chapters cover crucial moments such as: Franklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal, if at times indecisive, role in leading the United States; the miscalculation of Japanese intentions by American diplomats and the failure of deterrence in preventing war in the Pacific; the experiences and contributions of conscientious objectors to American society in this time of total war; the decision of the United States to fight with an ineffective battle tank at the expense of American lives; the Coast Guard's contribution to the D-Day Landing; and how elite foreign policy organizations prior to V-J Day sought to influence American occupation policies regarding Japan.
