Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism by Leonard, Aaron J.
Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism by Leonard, Aaron J.

Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism

A survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen...
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism by Leonard, Aaron J.

Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism

$42.40
Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism by Leonard, Aaron J.

Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism

$42.40
Author: Aaron J. Leonard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond.

Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and ending only with the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the U.S. government and major elements in the wider society waged an unrelenting campaign to suppress and criminalize domestic communism. This long-overdue book details the longest and most extensive repressive operation ever undertaken by U.S. authorities against a domestic political organization that, however problematic, was largely operating within the scope of constitutionally mandated freedoms. Beyond that, this is the story of how systemic measures against U.S. communists--in contrast to the vaunted claims of American political freedom--defined the political landscape of the last century.

Menace of Our Time tracks the suppression efforts aimed at the group, including the state laws of the twenties that imprisoned the fledgling communist leadership; the tactics used by police and local authorities against communists as they fought for unions, racial equality, and the unemployed; the trials and imprisonment of communist leaders mid-century; the extra-legal efforts of the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the sixties; and the ongoing, relentless surveillance by the FBI that followed. In examining the far-reaching measures the government brought to bear against the Communist Party USA, Aaron J. Leonard provides a clearer picture of the mechanics of social and political repression that abound in the society we still inhabit.



Author: Aaron J. Leonard
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781978841802

About the Author
AARON J. LEONARD is an author and historian. Among his books are Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, The Folk Singers & the Bureau, and Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s (Rutgers University Press, 2024).
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