Summary Of A Decade Of Fear

Sam Robert in the article A Decade of Fear argues that american turn against each other because of mccarthyism. Robert supports his claim by explaining, demonstrating and contrasting. The author's purpose is to persuade the reader to convince the reader that mccarthyism turned americans against each other. The author writes in a direct tone .I confidentially agree with roberts claim. Mccarthyism resulted in americans turning against each other because of fear of spies, paranoia and hysteria
Clearly, american had anxiety of being watched by spies. In the article it is said that “A former assistant secretary of state, Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury after denying that he was a communist spy. This shows that american people were so scared they started to point finger at people who could possible be innocent. One reason for this is that In “1917 soon after the Bolshevik Revolution that will turn rushing to Soviet union thousands of a legend communist in the US were arrested and deported this was later known as the red scare”. Coincidently in the book the crucible by Arthur Miller the people in
For example, others feel that mccarthyism had nothing to do with the fact that people were being rude to other american.a reason for believing this in the article Robert claims “for the us mccarthyism was only the latest example of the government's question the loyalty of american during war time. So to sum it up no really wanted to hate on each other but they just wanted to support the men that were fighting for them so they targeted people that were supposedly communist. The people saw a leader and they just followed them right or wrong. For instance in the book the crucible a part that relates to this is when abigail claims that she see the light of god and she begged for forgiveness and soon after that the rest of the other girls that were in the woods also begged