Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era is the first single-source, A-to-Z reference to the days of the blacklist, the Hollywood Ten, the Army-McCarthy Hearings and loyalty review boards. Going as far back as the post-World War II years, the book also covers the investigation of Soviet espionage in the U.S. atomic energy program and the activities of the China Lobby following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek. With more than 250 in-depth entries, cross-references,...

Assesses the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln's sometimes ambivalent abolitionist sympathies on the eventual end of slavery.