Description: This book offers a long history of the term "un-American," from Jefferson's vision of the early Republic to the present, tracing what the term has meant to whom through close looks at the most prominent contests for control of its definition and deployment.
Brief description: George Lewis, professor of American history at the University of Leicester, is the author of The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965.