[lbo-talk] Got book reviewers? bloggers?

[Jim Farmelant]

And we shouldn't forget the Bertrand Russell case of 1940.  Russell had been 
appointed to a professorship at City College in NYC. A local Episcopalian 
bishop took exception to this appointment and he initiated a campaign 
against the famous philosopher's appointment which was soon joined by many 
other Protestant and Catholic clergymen, then got hyped by the Hearst press, 
and enjoyed the support of many Tammany Hall politicians.   Russell was 
heavily atheist-baited and red-baited, even though he was no Communist. 
This (successful) campaign helped to set the stage for similar campaigns 
against other progressive academics in later years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bertrand_Russell_Case

Jim Farmelant
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> Carrol Cox said in part:
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
>
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