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World Service,15 May 1999,4 mins

The McCarthy Era

My Century

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"This was the time of the Cold War and the whole atmosphere of that time was incomprehensible." Ruth Goldberg tells her story of small-town American politics during the early 1950s during the McCarthy anti-communist era. Married to a Marxist labour lawyer, when she stood for election to local parents teachers association she was denounced as a left-wing activist.

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