Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada

by J. Dee Kille

The University before and during World War II was a small (fewer than 2,000 students) school offering basic programs to a largely Nevada-based student body in the nation's least-populated state. The campus was quiet, secure, traditional, and generally conservative. The postwar years brought booming enrollments and new faculty members, many from outside Nevada, imbued with a sense of the importance of shared academic governance.Soon, the university...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874175933
• ISBN13: 9780874175936
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"