The 1950s are often portrayed as an era of conformity and cultural stagnation, but this cliché has little basis in fact. Although McCarthyism may have been a low point in recent American political culture, it contributed in subtle ways to the era’s significant but often under-appreciated innovations in music, literature, and drama.
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Irving Louis Horowitz was the Hannah Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science and Chairman and Editorial Director of Transaction Publishers.
