> Truman. Eisenhower. Humphrey. Those are the names that
> correctly focus the Red Hunt.
> * * *
> State loyalty oaths for teachers were also independent of
> Joe [McCartyy]'s shenanigans.
>
> The Red Hunt was inseparable from the launching of the Cold
> War -- not McCarthy's concern.
This is all too true . . . at the national level. But the title of the book in question refers to N.Y., and one might wonder whether the "Red Apple" portion of the title pun-ingly refers especially to N.Y. City.
In any event, especially in N.Y. City besides state-wide, the Rapp-Coudert Committee of the early-1940s engaged in rabidly anti-communist and anti-[assertedly] comunist [sympathizing] public school teachers and public college professors. And communist -with/against- anti-communist wars in the N.Y. labor movement, especially within the largest unions in N.Y. apart from construction, the ILGWU and, later, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, besides the Furriers and, later, the Fur & Leather Workers' unions predated the 1950s.
Its complicated; and whether the book's title is "vicious" remains to be seen.