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A 3 page review and analysis of Garry Boulard's "The Big Lie." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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the atom bomb on Japan the Soviet Union and the United States entered into a tense Cold War wherein the fear was aimed, through government efforts, at the existence of
communism. This was the big lie, so to speak, the lie that argued that we needed to fear communists in our country, doing whatever we could to uncover them and
put restrictions upon them. In Garry Boulards work "The Big Lie" he addresses one event in the history of the United States that involved this lie. The following paper summarizes
and analyzes this particular work. The Big Lie This book is about a gubernatorial election in Louisiana that took place in 1951. The topic of the book covers
the tense situations involving the race, a race that almost saw the first woman governor of Louisiana elected. The book examines three of the candidates for the most part: Hale
Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez. In terms of the authors thesis, the tile seems to spell it out rather well in that the focus is on the
communist scare, the big lie, and how it involved the success of those who perpetuated the lie rather than the those who were victims of the big lie. His work
sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and how "she allowed the crafty segregationist leader
Leander Perez to make her his cats paw" (Tyler, 2003; 476). What they did was file a suit against Boggs, a gubernatorial candidate, for apparent leftist involvement in the 1930s.
It was claimed that he was a communist and this influenced the public and ensured that Boggs did not win (Boulard). In this it becomes apparent that
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