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By placing its professional expertise in the service of maintaining the democratic values of free expression and pluralism, American librarianship not only defended its professional autonomy in the area of book selection, but also developed an ideology of intellectual freedom and claimed its defense as a central jurisdiction.

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In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Conservative journalists and politicians seized the occasion to denounce the pair as communist sympathizers and spies for the Soviet Union.