Discrediting the Red Scare
：The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
Publication subTitle ：The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
Author： Goldstein > Robert J.
Publisher： University Press of Kansas
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9780700622269
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700622252
Subject： D08 Other political theory problems;D90 theory of law (jurisprudence);D911 国家法、宪法;D913 民法;D923 civil law
Keyword： 政治理论,法律
Language： ENG
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Description
During the Allies’ invasion of Italy in the thick of World War II, American soldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and lost both of his legs. Back home, rehabilitated and given a job at the Veterans’ Administration, he was soon to learn that his battles were far from over. In 1948, in the throes of the post-war Red Scare, the hysteria over perceived Communist threats that marked the Cold War, the government moved to fire Kutcher because of his membership in a small, left-wing group that had once espoused revolutionary sentiments. Kutcher’s eight-year legal odyssey to clear his name and assert his First Amendment rights, described in full for the first time in this book, is at once a cautionary tale in a new period of patriotic one-upmanship, and a story of tenacious patriotism in its own right.
The son of Russian immigrants, James Kutcher came of age during the Great Depression. Robbed of his hope of attending college or finding work of any kind, he joined the Socialist Workers Party, left-wing and strongly anti-Soviet, in his hometown of Newark. When his membership in the SWP came back to haunt him at the height of the Red Scare, Kutcher took up the fight against efforts to punish people for their thoughts, ideas, speech, and associations. As a man who had fought for his country and paid a great price, had never done anything that could be construed as treasonous, held a low level clerical position utterly unconnected with national s
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