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The devotion investigations prompted by the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s marginalized many talented people who had joined government service during the Great Depression wanting to promote public democracy as a means to financial reform. Their effect over New Offer policymaking and their alliances with progressive labor and consumer actions elicited a robust effect from conservatives, who accused them to be subversives. Landon Storrs attracts on newly declassified information of the federal government employee devotion program - created in response to anxieties that Communists were infiltrating the U.S. government - to show how disloyalty charges were used to silence these New Sellers and discredit their regulations. Because loyalty investigators rarely recognized between Communists and other leftists, many noncommunist leftists were pressured to leave government or deny their political views. Storrs finds that devotion defendants were more numerous at higher ranks of the civil service than previously thought, and that many were women, or men with completed leftist wives. Uncovering a forceful left-feminist existence in the brand new Offer, she shows how competitors on the Right exploited popular hostility to powerful women and their "effeminate" spouses. The devotion program not only destroyed many promising professions, it prohibited dialogue of public democratic policy ideas in government circles, narrowing the opportunity of political discourse to this day. Through a gripping narrative based on remarkable new resources, Storrs demonstrates the way the Second Red Scare undermined the reform potential of the brand new Offer and crippled the American welfare status.
