Description: Menace of Our Time provides a history of the repression against the Communist Party, USA, the longest-lasting, most intensive, domestic repressive campaign ever undertaken against a political organization in the United States. While the magnitude of attacks between the years 1917-1991 varied, there was never a time when U.S. communism was not a high-priority target of the U.S. political, social, and criminal justice apparatus. There has never been anything on this scale, before or since.
Review Quotes:
"Leonard [is] the best living historian on the topic of political repression of the US Left in the United States. . . . In today's USA, Leonard's chronicles of political repression become even more important than before. . . . The history told in Menace of Our Time leads to a far different truth about freedoms and their fragility. Indeed, this book could not have come at a better time."
-- "Counterpunch"