Legacy of a false promise : a daughter's reckoning / Margaret Fuchs Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singer, Margaret Fuchs, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuchs, Herbert, 1905-1988.

Fuchs, Herbert.

Fuchs, Frances Rice, 1907-1996.

Fuchs, Frances Rice.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Washington (D.C.)--Biography.

Washington (D.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, [Alabama] : University of Alabama Press, 2009.

Summary:

The compelling story of a teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.Margaret Fuchs was thirteen in June 1955 when she learned that her parents had been Communists while working for the U.S.government in the 1930s and '40s.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part I. Moral Dilemma

1. The Family Secret

2. Paranoia

3. The Subpoena

4. The Word Is Out

5. The Demand for a Public Accounting

Part II. Betrayals

6. Catch-22

7. About-face

8. Awaiting the Board's Decision

9. Public Hearing, Private Coping

10. Cause Célèbre: Fighting the Blacklist

Part III. Discovery

11. Breaking Away

12. Red Diaper Babies

13. "Fancy Naming a Baby 'Herbert

14. Secret Cells

15. "But What about Your Mother?

16. Too Close for Comfort

17. Harry Magdoff: Larger than Life

18. The FBI

Part IV. Reckoning

19. Naming Names

20. Remembering Them

21. Healing: Old Friends/New Family

22. Legacy of a False Promise

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-8637-8

OCLC:

1017609627