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EBOOK Insidious Foes:The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199879915
EAN: EE5CD4A2EB
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Stron: 264
Data wydania: 1995
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Nazi Germany's efforts to weaken the United States by subversion failed miserably.          Bungling spies were captured and half-hearted efforts at sabotage came to nothing.          Yet anyone who lived through WWII remembers the chilling posters warning Americans        that "e;Enemy Agents Have Big Ears"e; and "e;Loose Lips Sink Ships."e; Even Superman joined        the struggle against these insidious foes. In 1940, polls showed that 71% of        Americans believed a Nazi Fifth Column had penetrated the country. Almost half were        convinced that spies, saboteurs, dupes, and rumor-mongers lurked in their own        neighborhoods and work-places. These fears extended to the White House and        Congress.In this book, Francis MacDonnell explains the origins and consequences of        America's Fifth Column panic, arguing that conviction and expedience encouraged        President Roosevelt, the FBI, Congressmen, Churchill's government, and Hollywood to        legitimate and exacerbate American's fears. Gravely weakening the isolationists,        fostering Congress's role in rooting out Un-American activities, and instigating the        creation of the modern intelligence establishment, the Fifth Column scare did far        more than sell movie tickets, comic books, and pulp fiction. Insidious Foes traces        the panic from its origins in the minds of reasonable Americans who saw the        vulnerability of their open society in an age of encroaching totalitarianism.

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