McWILLIAMS, Carey.

Witch Hunt: The Revival of Heresy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1950. Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Some wear to the extremities of the dust jacket and sunning to the edges and rear panel. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. McWilliams, longtime editor of The Nation magazine, published this book at the height of the "Red Scare" in 1950 amid investigations by the House un-American Activities Committee. From the jacket summary: The book "Shows how the casual logic and repressive technique of the new inquisitions in our country are the same as those practiced by the Inquisition, by the Salem theocracy and by all other societies which have sought to clothe their weaknesses, contradictions and tensions by the creation of heresy and the persecutions of witches. Signed by the author.

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