How long does it take to read Many Are the Crimes?
Ellen Schrecker
Many Are the Crimes by Ellen Schrecker takes about 10 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 573 pages, about 157,575 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The McCarthy Era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. In the name of national security, most Americans - liberal and conservative alike - supported the anticommunist crusade that ruined so many careers, marriages, even lives. However, despite the unfairness of their methods, the nation's most powerful anti-Communists in the FBI, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and elsewhere were generally accurate in their accusations. Most of the men and women who were charged in the McCarthy-era purges had been involved with the American Communist party. Now, in Many Are the Crimes, Ellen Schrecker gives us the first complete post-Cold War account of McCarthyism. Drawing on newly released FBI files, private papers, and interviews, Schrecker explains why McCarthyism happened and how it worked. She also assesses its long-term impact. From the dumbing-down of Hollywood and the decline of the labor movement to the war in Vietnam and the post-Watergate sleaziness of contemporary politics, McCarthyism has cast a heavy shadow over America's political and cultural life.
Subjects: Communism, Anti-communist movements, Subversive activities, Internal security, History, McCarthyisme
