![]() Some had their passports taken away, while others were jailed for refusing to give the names of other communists. “… the paranoid hunt for infiltrators was notoriously difficult on writers and entertainers, many of whom were labeled communist sympathizers and were unable to continue working. His witch-hunts destroyed a great many careers, and even resulted in suicides by some of his victims. It was the heyday of “McCarthyism,” named after Senator Joe McCarthy, who went on a crusade to root out alleged Communists and homosexuals both inside and outside government. ![]() America was clouded by an atmosphere of paranoia, suspicion, and the fearful sense of a world rushing toward a nuclear holocaust. ![]() Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury in 1953 during the height of the Cold War, cannot be fully understood outside of its historical context. ![]()
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