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<br> In presenting six well-researched, detailed case studies of individuals deeply affected by the Red Scare of the 1950s, Phillip Deery has contributed greatly to our understanding of the nature of political repression and reminded us once again of this troubling moment in American history. --Robert Genter, Nassau Community College<p><br> Red Apple is a gem. Deery is a fine writer and a sensitive, balanced historian. --Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University<p><br>

Red Apple is a gem. Deery is a fine writer and a sensitive, balanced historian. -Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University In presenting six well-researched, detailed case studies of individuals deeply affected by the Red Scare of the 1950s, Phillip Deery has contributed greatly to our understanding of the nature of political repression and reminded us once again of this troubling moment in American history. --Robert Genter, Nassau Community College Red Apple is a gem. Deery is a fine writer and a sensitive, balanced historian. --Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University [Deery]... focuses on six individuals, including Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, who taught at New York University; the writer Howard Fast; and O. John Rogge, who would become the lawyer for David Greenglass, whose testimony sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in the Rosenberg spy case. --Sam Roberts, The New York Times Overall, Deery's work is thoroughly researched, well documented, and detailed. It is a compelling read and a valuable contribution to the Cold War historiography. -H-Net Reviews Overall, the book is a significant contribution to scholarship on the McCarthy era in the way it weaves the complex histories of these individuals associated with JAFRC, using New York City as the backdrop. The narrative is well placed, the anaylsis perceptive and the sourcing meticulous. Above all, it is very well written and reads in most parts like the best of biographies. -Labour History Overall, Deery's work is thoroughly researched, well documented, and detailed. It is a compelling read and a valuable contribution to the Cold War historiography. -H-Net Reviews It ['Red Apple'] is clearly written, based on an exhaustive list of sources, and most impressively shows a nuanced grasp of American political and cultural scene that is impressive for a scholar from Australia. -The American Conservative Deery qualitatively expands the kinds of sources used to illuminate an elusive past through his textures and nuanced depiction of a world-class moral panic in the postwar United States, and the human consequences. 'Red Apple' enables us to move further away from a history nourished by myths and comprised by involuntary as well as deliberate amnesia, and closer to one of proven facts. -Alan Wald, Science & Sociology The great contribution of 'Red Apple' is to show the value of going small to address big problems... The result is a careful and balanced history that shows us how lives were shaped by the politics of the era. -Patrick Iber, Australasian Journal of American Studies Phillip Deery's 'Red Apple: Communism and McCathyism in Cold War New York' reminds us of the devastating impact that domestic anticommunism has on its victims at the height of the Cold War... 'Red Apple' makes an important contribution to the literature on domestic anticommunism by turning our attention to New York City. -Clarence Taylor, American Historical Review Red Apple is an invaluable contribution to new ways of analyzing neglected aspects of the Cold War. Its research of primarily American archival sources is meticulous and rewarding. Its story of these individuals caught in the repression of the Cold War is compelling. -Australian Journal of Politics & History

In presenting six well-researched, detailed case studies of individuals deeply impacted by the Red Scare of the 1950's, Phillip Deery has contributed greatly to our understanding of the nature of political repression and reminded us once again of this troubling moment in American history. -Robert Genter, Nassau Community College Red Apple is a gem. Deery is a fine writer and a sensitive, balanced historian. -Ellen Wolf Schrecker, Yeshiva University

Overall, Deery's work is thoroughly researched, well documented, and detailed. It is a compelling read and a valuable contribution to the Cold War historiography. -H-Net Reviews Phillip Deery's Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York is a welcome reminder that the reactionary-inspired, fear-based politics of six decades ago can be a salutary subject to consider in 2015. -- -Henry Innes MacAdam Left History Overall, the book is a significant contribution to scholarship on the McCarthy era in the way it weaves the complex histories of these individuals associated with JAFRC, using New York City as the backdrop. The narrative is well placed, the anaylsis perceptive and the sourcing meticulous. Above all, it is very well written and reads in most parts like the best of biographies. -Labour History Deery qualitatively expands the kinds of sources used to illuminate an elusive past through his textures and nuanced depiction of a world-class moral panic in the postwar United States, and the human consequences. 'Red Apple' enables us to move further away from a history nourished by myths and comprised by involuntary as well as deliberate amnesia, and closer to one of proven facts. -- -Alan Wald -Science & Sociology It ['Red Apple'] is clearly written, based on an exhaustive list of sources, and most impressively shows a nuanced grasp of American political and cultural scene that is impressive for a scholar from Australia. -The American Conservative Phillip Deery's 'Red Apple: Communism and McCathyism in Cold War New York' reminds us of the devastating impact that domestic anticommunism has on its victims at the height of the Cold War... 'Red Apple' makes an important contribution to the literature on domestic anticommunism by turning our attention to New York City. -- -Clarence Taylor, Baruch College American Historical Review The great contribution of 'Red Apple' is to show the value of going small to address big problems... The result is a careful and balanced history that shows us how lives were shaped by the politics of the era. -- -Patrick Iber -Australasian Journal of American Studies Red Apple is an invaluable contribution to new ways of analyzing neglected aspects of the Cold War. Its research of primarily American archival sources is meticulous and rewarding. Its story of these individuals caught in the repression of the Cold War is compelling. -Australian Journal of Politics & History

In presenting six well-researched, detailed case studies of individuals deeply affected by the Red Scare of the 1950s, Phillip Deery has contributed greatly to our understanding of the nature of political repression and reminded us once again of this troubling moment in American history. --Robert Genter, Nassau Community College Red Apple is a gem. Deery is a fine writer and a sensitive, balanced historian. --Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University [Deery]... focuses on six individuals, including Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, who taught at New York University; the writer Howard Fast; and O. John Rogge, who would become the lawyer for David Greenglass, whose testimony sent his sister and brother-in-law to the electric chair in the Rosenberg spy case. --Sam Roberts, The New York Times Overall, Deery's work is thoroughly researched, well documented, and detailed. It is a compelling read and a valuable contribution to the Cold War historiography. -H-Net Reviews Overall, the book is a significant contribution to scholarship on the McCarthy era in the way it weaves the complex histories of these individuals associated with JAFRC, using New York City as the backdrop. The narrative is well placed, the anaylsis perceptive and the sourcing meticulous. Above all, it is very well written and reads in most parts like the best of biographies. -Labour History Overall, Deery's work is thoroughly researched, well documented, and detailed. It is a compelling read and a valuable contribution to the Cold War historiography. -H-Net Reviews It ['Red Apple'] is clearly written, based on an exhaustive list of sources, and most impressively shows a nuanced grasp of American political and cultural scene that is impressive for a scholar from Australia. -The American Conservative Deery qualitatively expands the kinds of sources used to illuminate an elusive past through his textures and nuanced depiction of a world-class moral panic in the postwar United States, and the human consequences. 'Red Apple' enables us to move further away from a history nourished by myths and comprised by involuntary as well as deliberate amnesia, and closer to one of proven facts. -Alan Wald, Science & Sociology The great contribution of 'Red Apple' is to show the value of going small to address big problems... The result is a careful and balanced history that shows us how lives were shaped by the politics of the era. -Patrick Iber, Australasian Journal of American Studies Phillip Deery's 'Red Apple: Communism and McCathyism in Cold War New York' reminds us of the devastating impact that domestic anticommunism has on its victims at the height of the Cold War... 'Red Apple' makes an important contribution to the literature on domestic anticommunism by turning our attention to New York City. -Clarence Taylor, American Historical Review Red Apple is an invaluable contribution to new ways of analyzing neglected aspects of the Cold War. Its research of primarily American archival sources is meticulous and rewarding. Its story of these individuals caught in the repression of the Cold War is compelling. -Australian Journal of Politics & History

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Phillip Deery is Professor of History at Victoria University, Melbourne, where he teaches American and Cold War history.

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