Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix Abbreviations Used in Text xi Selected Government Officials Investigated under the Federal Loyalty Program xiii Introduction 1 1When the Old Left Was Young ... and Went to Washington 16 2Allegations of Disloyalty at Labor and Consumer Agencies, 1939-43 51 3"Pinks in Minks": The Antifeminism of the Old Right 86 4The Loyalty Investigations of Mary Dublin Keyserling and Leon Keyserling 107 5Secrets and Self-Reinvention: The Making of Cold War Liberalism 147 6"A Soul-Searing Process": Trauma in the Civil Service 177 7Loyalty Investigations and the "End of Reform" 205 Conclusion 259 Appendix 1: Loyalty Case Records and Selection 265 Appendix 2: Case Summaries 268 Appendix 3: Chronology of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program 286 Appendix 4: Statistics of the Federal Loyalty-Security Program 291 Acknowledgments 293 Notes 295 Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources 385 Index 391

About the Author

Landon R. Y. Storrs is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is the author of "Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era".

Reviews

"[I]mportant, portentous work ... the means by which the once powerful American Left was reduced to stigmatized impotence were far from pretty. In fact, Storrs argues convincingly that historians have yet to grasp just how ugly they were."--David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement "Why is there no socialism in the United States? In this book, University of Iowa history professor Landon R. Y. Storrs proposes a new answer: Much more than previously supposed, left-leaning policy makers were targeted by government 'loyalty' investigations and intimidated into adopting conservative ideas. In making the argument, Storrs does a lot of spectacular things."--Rick Perlstein, Bookforum "[F]ascinating... [Storrs] has uncovered many fascinating stories of dedicated public servants whose careers were cut short, with a chilling impact on government programs, and further documents the negative aspects of the anticommunist crusade beginning during the New Deal and long continuing."--Choice "[W]ell-documented and tidily written."--Jim Burns, pennilesspress "In her persuasive new book, Landon Storrs ... provides a fascinating account of how we lost our path to a New Deal by succumbing to the politics of fear."--Alice Kessler-Harris, Women's Review of Books