{"product_id":"eisenhower-the-anticommunist-crusade","title":"Eisenhower \u0026 the AntiCommunist Crusade","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeff Broadwater provides a comprehensive survey of the Eisenhower administrations response to Americas postwar Red Scare. He looks beyond Senator Joseph McCarthys confrontations with Eisenhower to examine the administrations own antiCommunist crusade. Exploring the complex relationship between partisan politics and cold war tensions, Broadwater demonstrates that virulent anticommunism, as well as opposition to it, often cut across party and ideological lines. He shows, moreover, that although McCarthy and his allies captured the headlines, ultimately it was the Eisenhower administration that bore responsibility for implementing most of the nations antiCommunist policies.The book begins with an overview of the debate over internal security following World War II and then examines Eisenhowers record on the issue. Broadwater asserts that at the outset of the cold war, Eisenhower assumed a moderate stance, defending some of McCarthys targets and cooperating as NATO commander with European Socialist leaders. Later, as a presidential candidate under pressure from Republican conservatives, he moved steadily toward the right. Once in the Oval Office, he embraced much of the antiCommunist agenda and shared many of the McCarthyites fears about internal security, supporting, for example, the federal employee security program and the legal persecution of the Communist party.Broadwater concludes that while Eisenhower personally despised McCarthy and eventually presided over the end of the Red Scare, the president was also a committed anticommunist who frequently displayed little concern for American civil liberties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Broadwater, Jeff \/ hardcover","offer_id":47844266475765,"sku":"SONG0807820156","price":46.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71dMYZ7kx0L.jpg?v=1773812290","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/eisenhower-the-anticommunist-crusade","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}