China studies in McCarthy's shadow: a personal memoir. (Sen Joseph R. McCarthy)

The National Interest | September 22, 1998| | Copyright

A Personal Memoir

Great differences among academics and personal antagonisms in their fields of specialization are common in the best of times. But the 1950s were not the best of times. In what was to become known as the McCarthy era, differences within American university faculties were stark and personal antagonisms often poisonous.

To some extent this was inevitable. Ideological loyalties and attachments formed during the Depression years, and then strengthened by the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union, came into head-on conflict with the attitudes shaped by a fuller ...

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