American Stand

Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972

Autor: Eric R. Crouse

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Lexington Books

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Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representa...

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Autor

Eric R. Crouse

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2010

Stránek

204

EAN

9780739144428

ISBN

0739144421

Enbook ID

04669136

Vydavatel

Lexington Books

Hmotnost

454

Rozměry

162 x 240 x 20

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Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president of the United States. An American Stand: Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972 explores her engagement with the "masculine" issue of national defense. An unyielding foe of global communism, this Republican senator was the first female Cold Warrior. During the Korean War, she voiced strident anti-communist rhetoric in her newspaper column. Her energetic support for nuclear superiority in the fifties and sixties caused Nikita Khrushchev to describe her as "Satan in the guise of a woman." In the face of growing opposition to America's involvement in Vietnam, Smith remained committed to a clear stand against violent communist expansion. This book examines the exposition of the communist "menace" and the Cold War as a fight between good and evil without sanitization of communist leaders' ruthless actions. For Smith and many others, America's fight against global communism, despite appalling sacrifices of lives and money, made sense because they believed that communism was a vicious, expansionist system with little respect for human life and freedom.

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