Title A good American family : the Red Scare and my father / David Maraniss.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
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Plainville Public Library - Large Print Materials	LARGE PRINT 320.973 MAR	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Large Print Materials	LARGE PRINT 320.973 MARANISS	Check Shelf

Edition	Large print edition.
Description	697 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Physical Medium	large print rdafs
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Elliott Maraniss, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. David Maraniss weaves his father's story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital twentieth-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms-- adapted from back cover.
Contents	Part one: Watching one another. The imperfect S -- In from the cold -- Outside the gate -- Red menace -- Wheelman wood -- Negro, not niggra -- A new world coming -- A brief Spanish inquisition -- The runner -- Named -- Ace and Mary -- Fear and loathing -- Part two: In a time of war. Something in the wind -- Legless -- Know your men -- Why I fight -- In the blood -- The power of America -- Part three. Trials and tribulations. The Virginian -- Foley square -- Committee men -- A good American family -- March 12, 1952 -- The whole pattern of a life -- Witches or traitors -- Part four: five years. American wanderers -- Epilogue: Second acts.
Subject	Maraniss, David -- Family.
	Maraniss, Elliott, 1918-2004.
	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
	Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
	Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History.
	United States -- Politics and government.
	Anti-communist movements -- History.
	Anti-communist movements.
	Large type books.
	Maraniss, David. (OCoLC)fst01934435
	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. (OCoLC)fst00544557
	Anti-communist movements. (OCoLC)fst00810317
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Biographies.
ISBN	9781432870676 (hardcover ; large print)
	143287067X (hardcover ; large print)

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