Richard M Fried

Biographic Data

ID706472
NAMERichard M Fried
GIVEN NAMESRichard M
FAMILY NAMEFried
SIGNATUREFRIED R M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • The Iron Curtain in Rhetoric and Reality

    Richard M FriedARTICLEDiplomatic History2010

  • Operation Polecat”: Thomas E. Dewey, the 1948 Election, and the Origins of McCarthyism

    Open AccessRichard M FriedARTICLEJournal of Policy History2010References: 7

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  • Remaking of the President 1960

    Richard M FriedARTICLEHistory Reviews of New Books2010

  • The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America

    Jay Martin, J B Martin et al.ARTICLEThe Antioch Review2006

    Everyone knew him then: Bruce Barton was a cultural icon. Two-thirds of American history textbooks today cite him to illustrate the 1920s adoration of the mentality that then dominated American culture. Historians quote from his enormous best-seller, The Man Nobody Knows, in which Barton called Jesus the founder of modern business who picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of and forged them into an organization that conquered the world. But …

  • Selling the Cold War at Home and Abroad

    Richard M FriedARTICLEDiplomatic History2006

    Journal Article Selling the Cold War at Home and Abroad Get access Osgood Kenneth. Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. 506pp. Illustrated. Endnotes, index. $45.00. Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 30, Issue 5, November 2006, Pages 929–933, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1…

  • The "Red Spy Queen" in a Male World

    Richard M FriedARTICLEDiplomatic History2003

    Elizabeth Bentley was a prime ex-Communist witness of the early Cold War era, yet her star burned less luminously than those of other former Reds. She took her tale of espionage to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1945 and testified to a grand jury, at eight congressional hearings, and at four trials. She conformed to the parameters of this emerging profession: she capitalized her past by writing, lecturing, and testifying about it; s…

  • One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture

    Richard M Fried, K D RoseARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 13

    In this book Kenneth D. Rose delineates the culture encompassing the atomic shelter issue in the 1950s and 1960s. He delves into a variety of topics: the general political discourse; discussions in popular magazines; treatments of nuclear holocaust in movies, conventional novels, and science fiction; and “what-if ” coverage in local newspaper articles that depicted, often with graphics, the devastation to be anticipated from a nuclear attack. The…

  • The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming: Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America

    Geoffrey S Smith, Richard M FriedARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    At a time when dedicate their national holidays to barbecues, sporting events, and driving madly on crowded interstate highways to vacation homes and theme parks, it may be difficult to remember an era when patriotic observance was a matter of high seriousness and legislated pageantry. But now the memory is restored in fascinating detail by Richard M. Fried in the eye-opening The Russians Are Coming! After summarizing such patriotic developments …

  • The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!, Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America: Pageantry and patriotism in Cold-War America

    Richard M FriedBOOKThe Russians are coming! The…1998

    At a time when Americans dedicate their national holidays to barbecues, sporting events, and driving madly on crowded interstate highways to vacation homes and theme parks, it may be difficult to remember an era when patriotic observance was a matter of high seriousness and legislated pageantry. But now the memory is restored in fascinating detail by Richard M. Fried in the eye-opening The Russians Are Coming! After summarizing such patriotic dev…

  • A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy

    Richard M Fried, Thomas C ReevesARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. By Thomas C. Reeves. (New Yotk: Free Press, 1991. xvi + 510 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-02-925965-7.) Get access A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. By Reeves Thomas C.. (New York: Free Press, 1991. xvi + 510 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-02-925965-7.) Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…

  • Nightmare in RedThe McCarthy Era in Perspective

    Richard M FriedBOOKNightmare in Red1991

    This book provides an account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. The book describes the growth of the kind of paranoid and xenophobic anti-communism which characterized the HUAC and traces its origins from the New Deal to the post-war periods. Along the way we meet important actors in the Red-baiting drama, including Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, …

  • Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective

    Richard M FriedBOOKNightmare in Red1991

  • The Age Finds Its Name

    Richard M FriedCHAPTERNightmare in Red1991

  • Adlai Stevenson: The Man from Libertyville

    Richard M Fried, Andrew SchlesingerARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Adlai Stevenson: The Man from Libertyville. Prod. by Andrew Schlesinger. Schlesinger Productions and WTTW, Chicago, 1990. 90 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc., P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053) Get access Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pa…

  • Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective

    Don E Carleton, D Carleton et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. By Richard M. Fried. (New Yotk: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 243 pp. $22.95.) Get access Don E. Carleton Don E. Carleton University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1420–1421, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078388 Published: 01 March 1991

  • Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia

    Richard M Fried, Bruce J DierenfieldARTICLEJournal of American History1988Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Keeper of the Rules: Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia. By Bruce J. Dierenfield. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987. xiii + 306 pp. $25.00.) Get access Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887991 Publish…

  • "The Great "Red Menace: United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952

    Richard M Fried, Peter L SteinbergARTICLEJournal of American History1986Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Great “Red Menace”: United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947–1952. By Peter L. Steinberg. (Westport: Greenwood, 1984. xiv + 311 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $35.00.) Get access Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 998–999, https://…

  • The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War

    Richard M Fried, Stanley I KutlerARTICLEJournal of American History1983

    Journal Article The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold War. By Stanley I. Kutler. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. xv + 285 pp. Notes and index. $16.50.) Get access Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 723–724, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903583 Published: 01 D…

  • McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin

    Richard M Fried, M J O''Brien et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1981Cited by: 1

    Journal Article McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin. By Michael O'Brien. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980. xi + 269 pp. Notes, essay on sources, and index. $20.00.) Get access Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 735–736, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902043 Pu…

  • The Frustration of Politics: Truman, Congress, and the Loyalty Issue, 1945-1953

    Richard M Fried, Francis H ThompsonARTICLEJournal of American History1980

    Journal Article The Frustration of Politics: Truman, Congress, and the Loyalty Issue, 1945–1953. By Francis H. Thompson. (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979. 246 pp. Appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.50.) Get access Richard M. Fried Richard M. Fried University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 1,…

  • The McCarthy Phenomenon

    Norman D Markowitz, Richard M FriedARTICLEReviews in American History1977

  • Men Against McCarthy

    Gary W Reichard, Richard M FriedARTICLEJournal of American History1977

    Journal Article Men Against McCarthy. By Richard M. Fried. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. xii + 428 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95.) Get access Gary W. Reichard Gary W. Reichard Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 4, March 1977, Pages 1070–1071, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893707 Published: 01 March 1977