Fred M. Fiske
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Fred M. Fiske

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Fred M. Fiske became interested in McCarthyism and popular culture after growing up abroad in a diplomatic family. He studied German expessionism at Harvard, and wrote his masters thesis at Columbia Journalism School on the Elks fraternal order. ** When he moved to Syracuse for a job with the daily newspaper, Fred learned of the anticommunist grocer who in the 1950s put up signs in his supermarkets like, “Buy This Product and Help Kill Our Boys in Korea.” This was anticommunist guerrilla theater — and practice. How did this Central New York merchandiser persuade Borden, Kraft, CBS, ABC and others to impose a show-business blacklist? What does that say about Johnson, his allies — and us? By the time Fred retired from a 40-year newspaper career, he had the interviews, the reporting and historical perspective to tell the whole story. This is the result. ** Published as “The Elks: An American Ideology” in the Journal of Voluntary Action Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 1973 , 135-147.
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