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Review of Phillip Deery's "Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York"

by Andrew Feffer

This is an extremely well documented, lucidly written study, using personal correspondence, Party records and other archival sources amplified by newly declassified FBI files.

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Review of Phillip Deery's "Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York"

by Andrew Feffer