The Red Plot Against America

Drexel Hill, PA: Bell Publishing Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and black pictorial dust jacket; 282pp.; photographic frontispiece, 7 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light scuffing and rubbing to the edges and extremities of the cloth, bumping to spine ends, discoloration to boards matching areas of wear on the dustjacket; internally clean; in a bright dustjacket with creasing and shallow loss to edges, chipping and loss to the spine ends. A good, solid copy with some wear.

"500 Things Americans should know about Communism" is the rather lofty claim to be found on the dustjacket, (truncated) althugh the 500 things rapidly gets boiled down to two things: 'communists are bad, and communists are everywhere.'

SEIDMAN S455: "An account of communist subversion in America as disclosed by investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activites, 1938-48, written by the Committee's chief investigator. (Inventory #: 84019)