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The author draws extensively on primary materials and oral histories to document how limited a "threat" the Communist party actually posed in Hollywood

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On Turner's Trail Quentin Devine The author draws extensively onShould Frederick Jackson Turner be revered as "the father of western history" or reviled as a misguided advocate of a frontier spirit and rugged individualism that denied cultural diversity and produced widespread environmental destruction? Dividing into campus over the issue, western historians place him everywhere from one end of the spectrum to the other. In this provocative new interpretation of Turner's life, work, and legacy, Wilbur Jacobs