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Canada and the United States

M. J. Heale. McCarthy's Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935–1965. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 1998. Pp. xvii, 370. $40.00.

This book examines "McCarthyism" at the state level. It is a worthwhile undertaking, for not all anticommunist politics originated on the national political stage. Many states rushed to counter the red menace in the 1930s and 1940s, before Harry S. Truman's loyalty program, before the Hollywood Ten or the Alger Hiss case, and before Joe McCarthy. As M. J. Heale asserts, "the federal government was a relatively late recruit to the war on domestic communism" (p. 2). Analysis on this political tier sheds light on sources and motives of anticommunist politics. Heale's focus on the importance of the early and state-level roots of anticommunism is well taken, though it is perhaps not as novel a perspective as the book implies.

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