Cold War within American Higher Education - Rutgers University as a Case Study (Paperback)

The Cold War within American Higher Education: Rutgers University As A Case Study is Tom Richard's dissertation on the effects that the anti-communist feelings in America had on the Rutgers University in the 1950s and 1960s.

Fear of communism ran rampant at the university, which was constantly under attack from McCarthyites. Three professors were singled out for possibly being connected to the Communist party and were denied their civil liberties and rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.

The book is beneficial to history for its look at the tense internal and external developments at the university as well as across the nation during the anti-communist hysteria.