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Bad 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 Contents

Introduction 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

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 08/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823281152, 978-0823281152
      ISBN10: 0823281159

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bad 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 Contents

      Introduction 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

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