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George Seldes’ War for the Public GoodSubversive

George Seldes’ War for the Public Good: Subversive [Allegations that Seldes was a communist emerged in the early 1940s and largely grew out of his uncritical attitude to the Soviets as a part of his campaign against fascism. His pro-labour, pro-Popular Front position and the fact that unbeknownst to him his newsletter was funded by the Communist Party in the first year of its operation amplified these accusations. Seldes and his subscribers came under the surveillance of the FBI and he was eventually called to appear before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Congressional investigation into the United States Library Service in 1953. This committee’s interrogation of his beliefs affirmed for him his worst fears about the impact of reactionary forces on public debate, freedom and civil rights, and demonstrated how his battle for a free press was recast as a threat to national security in Cold War America where he was unable to convince others that the real threat to freedom was a corrupted press.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

George Seldes’ War for the Public GoodSubversive

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-30876-6
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1 –10
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-30877-3_1
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Abstract

[Allegations that Seldes was a communist emerged in the early 1940s and largely grew out of his uncritical attitude to the Soviets as a part of his campaign against fascism. His pro-labour, pro-Popular Front position and the fact that unbeknownst to him his newsletter was funded by the Communist Party in the first year of its operation amplified these accusations. Seldes and his subscribers came under the surveillance of the FBI and he was eventually called to appear before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Congressional investigation into the United States Library Service in 1953. This committee’s interrogation of his beliefs affirmed for him his worst fears about the impact of reactionary forces on public debate, freedom and civil rights, and demonstrated how his battle for a free press was recast as a threat to national security in Cold War America where he was unable to convince others that the real threat to freedom was a corrupted press.]

Published: Nov 15, 2019

Keywords: Joseph McCarthy; Committee of Un-American Activities; Second Red Scare

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