@article{471064, recid = {471064}, author = {Storrs, Landon R. Y.}, title = {The second Red Scare and the unmaking of the New Deal left [electronic resource] /}, publisher = {Princeton University Press,}, address = {Princeton :}, pages = {1 online resource (xii, 404 p.) :}, year = {2012}, abstract = {The loyalty investigations triggered by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented women and men who had entered government service during the Great Depression seeking to promote social democracy as a means to economic reform. Their influence over New Deal policymaking and their alliances with progressive labor and consumer movements elicited a powerful reaction from conservatives, who accused them of being subversives. Landon Storrs draws on newly declassified records of the federal employee loyalty program--created in response to fears that Communists were infiltrating.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/471064}, }