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Acknowledgments Roy Rosenzweig convinced me to write this book. As a new Ph.D., I taught a survey class as an adjunct at George Mason University, and met Roy in early 2006. He asked me to visit one of his graduate courses to talk about dissertation writing, and his unaffected kindness immediately put me at ease. Roy insisted on driving me home, a long drive from Fairfax, Virginia, to Washington , D.C., and his warmth loosened my tongue. In class he had already heard about my dissertation on labor spies. Now he listened intently as I told him about the fascinating clues I had found about labor anticommunism. I confessed that I wanted to put aside my dissertation and work on this new project instead. “Go ahead!” he said. “It’s a great project!” I had not realized that Roy was a member of the editorial board of the journal American Communist History, and he knew a lot about Communism and anticommunism. The car periodically drifted across the freeway lanes as we gossiped about labor conservatives and Communists. “Send me your research,” he urged as he dropped me off, and I promised to do so, suddenly resolved to start the book. Roy Rosenzweig died the following year. As one of untold scholars who benefited from his encouragement, I want to say thanks to Roy Rosenzweig. Generous funding made my research possible. A postdoctoral fellowship from the Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University ’s Tamiment Library gave me a glorious year in the archives and access to the remarkable librarians and holdings of the Tamiment. Thanks especially to Michael Nash and Peter Filardo for their support and advice. A second postdoctoral fellowship year at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) allowed me to draft the manuscript in a stimulating and nurturing environment. At the IRLE, Ruth Milkman created an extraordinarily warm scholarly climate and helped me test and develop my ideas. A short-term fellowship at the Newberry Library introduced me to its friendly community of scholars and especially James Grossman, who is a model of collegiality. x Acknowledgments Many librarians and archivists tracked down documents and helped me interpret my findings. I am especially grateful to Peter Filardo at the Tamiment Library; Jim Quigel at Penn State’s Historical Collections and Labor Archives; Sarah Springer and Robert Reynolds at the George Meany Archives ; Patrizia Sione and Barb Morley at Cornell’s Kheel Center; and Traci Drummond of Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University. Darlene Mott at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center and Aaron Lisec at the Southern Illinois University’s Special Collections found important materials for me. Rod Ross at the National Archive’s Center for Legislative Archives spent time helping me navigate the papers of congressional committees. John Earl Haynes graciously helped me with the John Frey papers at the Library of Congress, and a visit to San Francisco State University ’s Labor Archives and Research Center was productive and fun thanks to Catherine Powell. A special thanks to Peter Drinkwater at Footnote.com, the digital repository of several collections of the National Archives. When I complained about difficulty navigating the huge Franz von Rintelen file in the Department of Justice papers, Peter burned a CD of the entire file for me. The interlibrary loan service at Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library supplied me with obscure materials quickly and efficiently. It has been wonderful to work with the staff at the University of North Carolina Press. Chuck Grench supported this project in its earliest stages, and his encouragement sustained my resolve through the long writing process . The good cheer of Beth Lassiter, Rachel Berry Surles, and Katy O’Brien made the editorial process fun. Paul Betz and Liz Gray’s painstaking work on the manuscript enabled me to produce a much better book. Many people read and critiqued chapters of the manuscript in seminars and colloquia. Writing groups in New York and Los Angeles helped me puzzle through the earliest drafts. In NewYork, Jonathan Soffer, Nancy Kwak, Sarah Phillips, Anne Kornhauser, Richard Greenwald, and Neil Rosendorf gave me invaluable comments and advice, along with plenty of good cheese from Murray’s. In Los Angeles, the long-running Los Angeles Social History Study Group welcomed me to their convivial dinners and rigorous discussions ; thanks to John Laslett, Becky Nicolaides, Steve Ross, Frank Stricker, Allison Varzally,Toby Higbie, Hal Barron, Nancy Fitch, Leila Zenderland, and Craig...

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