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A chapter of the book "American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture," edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor is presented. It highlights the investigation of historians on some aspects of Cold War America, particularly on controversies. It highlights two perspectives, seeking to evaluate the consequences of anticommunism and the mix of responsible and extremist elements within the movement of Communist Party of Maryland.

A chapter of the book "American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture," edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor is presented. It explores how sincere anticommunists could be guided to excess during the cold war. Moreover, varieties of labor anticommunists that emerged to oppose over political and religious ideology and union turf is also presented.

A chapter of the book "American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture," edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor is presented. It explores the deleterious impact of the political repression of the Joseph McCarthy period on American labor during the cold war. It considers how McCarthyism divide the labor movement from labor's leaders to its rank-and-file members.