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Part I
Based on existing studies, Fried provides us a comprehensive analysis of the McCarthy Era. 
First, the author claims that this book “adhere to the thesis that the origins of Mc lay largely among the grievances and ambitions of conservative politicians,” and agree with the viewpoint that “McCarthyism was a political phenomenon that extended well beyond the antics of Senator McCarthy, well beyond the boundaries of conventional politics.”(p.9)  With above viewpoints, the author first tells us stories of how some people became McCarthyism victims, including Alger Hiss, Owen Lattimore and etc. Then Fried traced back to earlier era to search the origin of anti-communism. Republicans had for years inveighed against New Deal “socialism” and “communism”, thus anti-communism became an important strategy among party rivals. The endemic circumstance of America, Fried points out the undeveloped of civil liberation making  “a broad anti-Communism consensus shared and seldom questioned by most liberals as well as conservatives, by intellectuals as well as plain folk, by union members as well as bosses”(p.36) in Cold War America. As to the external menace, the established of the Third International in 1919 aggravated the scarce of red in America. In America, the pass of Smith Act, and loyalty program  and other government actions shaped the mechanism anti-communism. Thus Fried argues that “much of the machinery and the discourse of McCarthyism was in place before the Cold War, or McCarthy’s advent.” (p.58)  Following chapters are more impressive, Fried moves to the impact of anti-Communism on social terrain. Under the new politics of loyalty, the attention shifted from action to thought. Such as the burning of books related to socialism, playing baseball as American virtues, all of them are very interesting. In the end, although Fried tried to figure out the impact of anti-Communism on civil rights movement, it seems difficult to clarify. 



Part II
1.	Fried mentions a lot about the cultural basis of anti-Communism in America, but it seems he does not explore the origin or shaping process of the American cultural basis, so I think this deserves a general discussion, what is that culture? How that kind of culture shaped?
2.	The anti-Communism movements were prevalent in many other countries as well in history, so what the difference between US and other countries? Particular different with European countries?