| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Todd J. Pfannestiel. Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade against Radicalism, 1919–1923. (Studies in American Popular History and Culture.) New York: Routledge. 2003. Pp. xiii, 229. $79.95.

Todd J. Pfannestiel's book is a well-researched, clearly written contribution both to the increasing literature examining the first American "red scare" and to the debates over civil liberties and academic freedom that emerged in the United States in the context of World War I. While the book concentrates on the State of New York's response to the establishment of the Soviet Russia Bureau (under Ludwig Martens) in New York City and the overall crusade against pro-Soviet radicals in the entire state, the special contribution of Pfannestiel's work lies in its examination of Clayton Lusk's campaign against both the Rand School of Social Science and public education in New York State as a whole. While it adds little new to our understanding of the operations of the Martens Bureau or the campaign against it, we learn much about the struggle for academic freedom in New York's schools in the early 1920s.

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