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X-Post NEWDEAL UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE EISENHOWER CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES McCarthyism in America National Archives, Washington, DC February 9th, 9:00am - 6:00pm Fifty years ago-on the evening of February 9, 1950-Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a stump speech before a Republican Women's Organization in Wheeling, West Virginia claiming that the Truman administration was a bastion for pro-Soviet infiltrators. "While I cannot take the time to name all of the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party . . ." he exhorted, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 . . . names that were known to the Secretary of State and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department." The numbers were to fluctuate over the next few days, but the specificity of McCarthy's groundless charges as well as his genius for publicity quickly transformed the previously unknown senator from Wisconsin into the most notorious American politician of the 1950's. To commemorate that fateful day, The National Archives, in conjunction with the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans and the Yale University Press is holding a day-long public symposium in Washington D.C. on February 9, 2000 from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Conference co-chairs-Douglas Brinkley and Sam Tanenhaus-will introduce the program with keynote addresses. Throughout the day a host of scholars, including Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Stephen E. Ambrose, David Oshinsky, John Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Ellen Schrecker, Michael Lind, James Chace, George Nash, Ron Radosh, John Patrick Diggens, Thomas Reeves, Patrick Maney, Jessica Wang, Allen Weinstein, Michael Ybarra, Patricia Sullivan, Richard Powers, Stefan Kanfer, Martin Sherwin, Jacob Weisberg will present scholarly papers on varied topics including, "McCarthy as Conspiracy Theorist," "The Hollywood Blacklist," "Alger Hiss and Dean Acheson," "Who Killed Joe McCarthy," "Whitaker Chambers Revisited," "McCarthy and the Ivory Tower," "The Verona Cables," and "McCarthy and Civil Rights." These essays will be published by Yale University Press in fall 2000. Schedule WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2000 8:00-8:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries OPENING REMARKS 8:30-9:00 "McCarthyism vs. Liberalism" Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Graduate Center - City University of New York, author of The Vital Center "The Wheeling Speech of February 9, 1950: Fifty Years Later" Douglas Brinkley, University of New Orleans, author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years SESSION ONE 9:00-11:00 a.m. Moderator: Douglas Brinkley, University of New Orleans Participants: "Seven Truths About Joe McCarthy" Thomas C. Reeves, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, author of The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography "McCarthyism: What We Now Know" David Oshinsky, Rutgers University, author of Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy "Whittaker Chambers and McCarthy" Sam Tanenhaus, author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography "Soviet Espionage and Communist Subversion in the United States in the Early Cold War" John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Library of Congress and Emory University, respectively, authors of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America 11:00-11:15 a.m. Coffee Break SESSION TWO 11:15-12:45 p.m. Moderator: Sam Tanenhaus, author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Participants: "McCarthy Among the Conspiracy Theorists" Richard Gid Powers, City College of New York-Staten Island, author of Not Without Honor: A History of American Anticommunism "McCarthy and the Intellectuals" John Patrick Diggins, Graduate Center at the City University of New York, author of The Rise and Fall of the American Left "McCarthy and Acheson" James Chace, World Policy Journal, author of Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World "McCarthy and the Legacy of the Anti-Communist Liberal Intellectuals" Ronald Radosh, Center for Communitarian Policy Studies, George Washington University, co-author with Harvey Klehr of The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism 12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch SESSION THREE 2:00-3:45 p.m. Moderator: Jacob Weisberg, New York Times Magazine Participants: "LaFollette, McCarthy, and the Progressive Origins of Anticommunism" Patrick J. Maney, University of South Carolina, author of The Roosevelt Presence: The Life and Legacy of FDR "McCarthy and Virginia Durr" Patricia Sullivan, Woodrow Wilson Center, author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era "McCarthy and Pat McCarran" Michael Ybarra, author of the forthcoming biography of Pat McCarran "The Hollywood Blacklist: Fifty Years Later" Stefan Kanfer, author of A Journal of the Plague Years 3:45-4:00 p.m. Coffee Break SESSION FOUR 4:00-4:45 p.m. Moderator: Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s Participants: "McCarthy and the Scientists" Jessica Wang, University of California-Los Angeles, author of American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War "McCarthyism and the Oppenheimer Hearing" Martin Sherwin, Tufts University SESSION FIVE 4:45-6:00 p.m. Moderator: Sam Tanenhaus, author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Participants: "McCarthyism: The Myth and the Reality" Ellen Schrecker, author of Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America "The American Jewish League Against Communism" George Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 "McCarthy and the Political Culture of Greater New England" Michael Lind, New American Foundation, author of Vietnam the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict ------------------------------------- Stephen E. Ambrose Distinguished Speakers Series The Eisenhower Center, in partnership with The Foreign Relations Association is proud to present Paul Hendrickson author of The Living and the Dead : Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War This book is another worthy step in the 1000- mile trek of trying to figure out what the Vietnam War meant in human terms. (The richest vein struck in this effort thus far still has to be Gloria Emerson's Winners and Losers.) Hendrickson spent most of a decade putting together the story of the war in the lives of Robert McNamara and five less fancy participants in it--a combat Marine who once was on the cover of Life, an Army nurse, the scion of an upper-crust Vietnamese family, a Quaker who set fire to himself outside McNamara's Pentagon office window in 1965, and an artist who, in 1972, tried to throw McNamara over the side of the Martha's Vineyard ferry. Hendrickson's efforts to generate a sense of his characters interacting on a cosmic stage too often flirt with bathos, but his way with the characters themselves is undeniably powerful Thursday, February 17, 7:00pm - 8:30pm Hors' d oeuvres and cocktails begin at 6:00pm Plimsoll Club, 30th Floor of the World Trade Center Everyone is welcome, free of charge, validated parking -------------------------------------- The 1999 Forrest C. Pogue Prize from http://www.uno.edu/~eice/News.html
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