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The fascinating story of how a small trans-Atlantic group of conservative media moguls successfully delayed Britain's and America's response to Nazi aggression by influencing public opinion in a populist, pro-fascist direction and playing up the threat of communism and the "Asiatic hordes? as World War II approached.

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When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history. Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate who spied for the Soviet Union for seven years. She met with dozens of highly placed American agents who worked for the Soviets, gathering their se...

This text describes the post-Watergate investigations of the CIA and FBI by the media and Congress, which caused observers to predict changes in the intelligence agencies. It also explains how neither the media nor Congress pressed for reforms, resulting in a return to the status quo.

Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement" (Kirkus Reviews).   At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is making urgent demands on twenty-first-century America-and when a new and virulent strain of right-wing anti-immigrant populism is roiling the political waters-Right Out of California is a fresh and profoundly relevant touchstone ...

Olmsted's vivid, accomplished narrative really belongs to the historiography of the left... as her strong research shows, race and gender prejudice informed or deformed, almost the whole of American social and cultural life in the 1930s and was as common on the left as on the right."-The New York Times Book Review NOW IN PAPERBACK An "arresting" (In These Times) new history of modern American conservatism, uncovering its roots in the turbulen...

Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Although the paranoid style has been a feature of the American scene since the birth of the Republic, this book shows that it is only in the 20th century that strange and unlikely conspiracy theories have become central to American politics.