32409. McCormick, Charles H., 1932-. This nest of vipers : McCarthyism and higher education in the Mundel affair, 1951-52. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1989, x, 229pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $7.5 Study of the firing of a West Virginia state college teacher in the 1950s . "[H]istorically witch-hunting episodes seem to be less the fruit of mass hysteria driving leaders willy-nilly before it than the result of political disarray among elites in times of societal crisis - a sort of anxiety-ridden thrashing about of the body politic unbridled by coherent, responsible directions from its head" (3). ISBN 0252016149
21662. Rader, Melvin Miller, 1903-. False witness. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979, xviii, 209pp. 22 cm, very good sewn paperback, $10 Personal account of a man falsely labeled a member of the Communist party and his struggle to refute the charge. ISBN 0295956607
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