Description
Book SynopsisBad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy, anticipated and made McCarthyism possible.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
PART I: The Hearings
1 The Threshold 21
2 The Stooge Grebanier 36
3 Coudertism 54
4 Vichy’s Lawyer? 70
PART II: Class War
5 The Dewey Trial 85
6 The Educational Front 108
7 Far from the Ivory Tower 129
PART III: The Mortal Storm
8 Bad Faith 149
9 CCNY 174
10 Flirting with the Right 195
11 Communism on Trial 212
12 Aftermath 227
Conclusion: The Coudert Legacy 241
Acknowledgments 255
Abbreviations Used in the Endnotes 259
Notes 265
Index 317
