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61. Quoted in Conquest, 1968, 132. “Koestler’s account is in fact well founded on the facts…. His ‘Rubashov’ is modeled on Bukharin in his thinking and Trotsky and [Karl] Radek in his personality and physical appearance.” Conquest, 1968, 133, n. 29.
62. People’s Commissariat, 137–38.
63. Quoted in People’s Commissariat, 164 (“I demand…”); quoted in foreword to Leon Trotsky,
Stalin’s Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials
(New York: Pioneer, 1950), viii (“the supreme penalty…,” etc.).
64. Quoted in Donald Rayfield,
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
(New York: Random House, 2005), 319 (“It needs stylistic polishing”).
65. Quoted in Rayfield, 317, 320 (“A Poem About Stalin…” and “Koba, why do you need my life?”).
66. Anne Applebaum,
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
(New York: Penguin, 2003), 3.
67. Quoted in Applebaum, 21 (“ongoing purification”), 64 (“wreckers”), 105 (“the second category,” etc.), 109 (“isolation”), 111 (“enemies of the people” and “counter-revolutionaries”).
68. Robert Conquest,
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), 284 (“traitor to the fatherland”) (adapted); quoted in Applebaum, 111 (“crawl[ed] stealthily into socialism…”).
69. Applebaum, 106 (“the Revolution devoured…”); Conquest, 1987, 284 (“Member of the Family…”).
70. Quoted in Applebaum, 106.
71. Quoted in Conquest, 1968, 318–19.
72. Applebaum, 116.
73. Applebaum, 116.
74. Peters, 1985, 68 (“queen of torments.
75. Rayfield, 279.
76. Hannah Arendt, quoted in Applebaum, 21.
77. Applebaum, 117, 119.
8.
AMERICAN INQUISITION
1. Lea, 49 (“a settled punishment…”); Lambert, 8 (“to buy faggots…”).
2. Held, 80 (“tossed back…”).
3. Burman, 150 (“The Spanish Inquisition…”) (adapted); Ernest W. Pettifer,
Punishments of Former Days
(Hampshire, UK: Waterside Press, 1992), 124 (“strong and hard pain”).
4. Marion L. Starkey,
The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials
(New York: Anchor Books, 1969; orig. pub. 1949), 30 (“tricks and spells”).
5. Quoted in Starkey, 47 (“Who torments you?”); Starkey, 50 (“shrewish…”).
6. Quoted in Starkey, 87.
7. Quoted in Starkey, 94 (“Why he can pinch…”); Starkey, 94 (“the crazed fantasies…”).
8. Arthur Miller,
The Crucible,
intro. Christopher Bigsby (New York: Penguin Books, 2003; orig. pub. 1952), 26.
9. Quoted in Starkey, 205.
10. Quoted in Starkey, 208.
11. Quoted in Starkey, 214 (“It is better…”); quoted in Armstrong, 396–97 (“Kill them all…”).
12. Starkey, 228 (“melted like moonshine…”).
13. Quoted in Starkey, 262 (“bring[ing] upon ourselves…”), 259–60 (“was a great delusion…,” etc.).
14. Quoted in Richard Francis,
Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience
(New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 93–94.
15. De Santillana, 324.
16. Quoted in Roger Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor and Harry H. L. Kitani, eds.,
Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress
(Rev. ed.) (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991), 57 (“enemy aliens”); quoted in Martin E. Marty,
One God, Indivisible, 1941–1960,
vol. 3 of
Modern American Religion
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 77 (“one drop…”); quoted in Douglas Brinkley, ed.,
World War II: The Axis Assault, 1939 1942
(New York: Times Books, 2003), 279 (“A Jap’s a Jap”); quoted in Shimon Shetreet,
Free Speech and National Security
(Leiden, The Netherlands: Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1991), 187 (“pressing public necessity”).
17. Quoted in Victor S. Navasky,
Naming Names
(New York: Penguin Books, 1981), 22.
18. Lillian Hellman,
Scoundrel Time,
intro. Garry Wills (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976), 39 (“the fear of a Red tank…”); quoted in Ellen Schrecker,
Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), 135 (“almost a separate species…”), 144 (“the germ of death…,” etc.).
19. Quoted in Navasky, 74.
20. Quoted in Navasky, ix.
21. Navasky, 75 (“orgy of informing…”); Hellman, 93 (“inhuman and indecent…,” etc.).
22. Intro. to Hellman, 18–19, 20.
23. Quoted in Otto Friedrich,
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1997; orig. pub. 1986), 321.
24. Quoted in Schrecker, 361.
25. Isaac Deutscher, biographer of Trotsky, quoted in Friedrich, 293 (“the Galileo of his drama…”) (adapted); Brecht,
Galileo,
quoted in Friedrich, 295 (“I recanted because…”).
26. Quoted in Friedrich, 330.
27. Quoted in Friedrich, 330 (“No, no, no…,” “based on the philosophy…,” and “a good example”) (adapted).
28. Quoted in Navasky, 212 (“I speak my own sins,” etc.), 215 (“I have had to go to hell…”).
29. Quoted in Navasky, 212.
30. Schrecker, 317.
31. Schrecker, 360.
32. Quoted in Elaine Woo, “M. Radulovich, 81; Airman’s Case Played Key Role in Helping to End McCarthy Era,”
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 21, 2007, B-8.
33. Miller, 111. The final line of dialogue is actually spoken by the character of Thomas Danforth: “Mr. Hale! Mr. Hale!”
34. Haynes Johnson,
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
(Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005), xii (“what can happen…”), 4 (“devil’s brew of fear…,” etc.).
35. Quoted in James Bovard,
Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 1.
36. H. Johnson, 467.
37. H. Johnson, 469, 470 (“not a single one of these individuals…” and “not one was convicted….”).
38. Quoted in H. Johnson, 473.
39. Quoted in H. Johnson, 482 (“watch lists” and “no-fly lists”), 484 (“read your medical records…”); quoted in Bovard, 157 (“Total Information Awareness”); Phil Kent, Southeastern Legal Foundation, quoted in Bovard, 158 (“the most sweeping threat…”).
40. Quoted in Bovard, 144–45 (“millions of American truckers…” and “snitch system”).
41. Quoted in Bovard, 321.
42. Kamen, quoted in Burman, 150–51 (“called into existence…”); Cohn, 49 (“a monstrous, anti-human conspiracy”); Lambert, 151 (“a devoted underground elite”); John and Anne Tedeschi, in Ginzburg, ix (“legal justice”); Miller, quoted in Navasky, 212 (“murderous engine”).
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