Academic Freedom Imperiled : The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada

Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2004. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. Perfect condition. NOT price clipped ($29.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. First Edition with "First Printing" so stated and complete number row (54321) on the copyright page. A volume from the Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original dark gray cloth, stamped in shiny silver on the spine. From the dust jacket: "The 'Red scare' of the 1950s created a national crisis that challenged concepts of loyalty and freedom of speech in every corner of American society. The crisis was especially problematic in American universities where traditions of academic freedom found themselves at odds with political issues growing out of the Cold War. The University of Nevada in Reno was no exception. The university before and during World War II was a small school offering basic programs to a largely Nevada-based student body in the nation's least-populated state. The campus was quiet, secure traditional and generally conservative. The postwar years brought booming enrollments and new faculty members with liberal views and growing disputes over the practice and purpose of higher education. The 1952 appointment of Minard W. Stout as president triggered the crisis. Mandated by a conservative Board of Regents to 'clean up' the university, Stout brought to his new job a keen sense of mission and a strident commitment to an authoritarian, top-down chain of command. His subsequent battles with faculty and students quickly degenerated into angry accusations of faculty Communist sympathies and bitter confrontations over academic free speech, academic free speech, university governance, and loyalty. Soon, the university found itself embroiled in an intense controversy that threatened its academic integrity and even raised concerns about its future as a viable institution… J. Dee Kille's lively account of the crisis 'on the hill' records a critical period in Nevada's recent history and serves as a powerful case study of the devastating impact of McCarthyism and its atmosphere of suspicion and repression on one American university campus during this turbulent era in the nation's history.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. (xiv), 139pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.