{"product_id":"no-ivory-tower-mccarthyism-and-the-universities-9780195056631","title":"No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities","description":"\u003cp\u003eEllen Schreckers award-winning and highly-acclaimed No Ivory Tower recounts the previously untold story of how the anti-Communist furor during the 1950s affected the nations colleges and universities. She describes how the hundreds of professors called before the investigating committees of the McCarthy era confronted the same dilemma most other witnesses had to face  deciding whether to cooperate with the committees and \"name names\" or to refuse such cooperation and risk losing their jobs. Drawing on previously untouched archives and dozens of personal interviews  Schrecker re-creates the climate of fear that pervaded American campuses  as the nations educational leaders responded to the national obsession with Communism as well as their own fears about the damage that notoriety might do to the reputations of their institutions. As a result  firings occurred everywhere--at Ivy League universities  large state schools and small private colleges--and the presence of an unofficial but effective blacklist meant that most of these unfrocked professors could not find regular college teaching jobs in the U.S. until well after the McCarthyist furor had begun to subside in the 1960s. No Ivory Tower helps to explain how the McCarthyism  which many people even then saw as a betrayal of this nations most cherished ideals  gained so much power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666172141621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195056639","price":521.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195056631.jpg?v=1782421593","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/no-ivory-tower-mccarthyism-and-the-universities-9780195056631","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}