Ellen Schrecker
Ellen Wolf Schrecker, Ph.D. (born August 4, 1938) is a professor of American history at Yeshiva University. She is primarily known for her work in the history of McCarthyism.
She graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1960 and earned her M.A. in 1962
and her doctorate in 1974, both from Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, New York University, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia.
Schrecker's best known book is Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, published in 1998. Kirkus Reviews wrote of this book, "It is no easy task bringing new life to an era already as dissected as the McCarthy era, yet this is what Schrecker accomplishes in a magnificent study of how and why McCarthyism happened and how its shadow still darkens our lives." In addition to McCarthyism, Schrecker has written on related topics such as political repression, academic freedom and Soviet espionage during the Cold War, as well as on Franco-American relations in the 1920s and coauthoring a Chinese cookbook.
Her emphatic condemnation of the practices of McCarthy-era anti-communists has led some scholars to characterize Schrecker as leftist and an apologist for American Communists. Historian Ronald Radosh has called her "the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians" and John Earl Haynes charged that "Schrecker… devotes hundreds of pages to demonizing opposition to communism in any form." Schrecker argues that her position is that "in this country[,] McCarthyism did more damage to
the constitution than the American Communist party ever did."
From 1998 to 2002, Schrecker was the editor of Academe, the journal of the American Association of University Professors.
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- Edited by Schrecker, Ellen (2004). Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism. New Press. ISBN 1-59558-083-2.
- Schrecker, Ellen (1998). Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-77470-7.
- Schrecker, Ellen (1994, rev. ed. 2002). The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-29425-5.
- Schrecker, Ellen (1986). No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505663-9.
- Edited by Kaplan, Craig and Schrecker, Ellen (1983). Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in the 1980s. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-91021-0.
- Schrecker, Ellen (1978). The Hired Money: The French Debt to the United States, 1917-1929. Arno Press. ISBN 0-405-11247-5.
- Chiang, Jung-Feng and Schrecker, Ellen (1976 (2nd ed., 1987)). Mrs. Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook. Harper and Row. ISBN 0-06-015828-X.
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