Book Discussion: Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism & Modern America- Clay Risen

Award-winning history writer and journalist Clay Risen tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in political hysteria during the decade following WW II. McCarthyism arose amid the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, and the onset of the Cold War.

An urgent, accessible, and important history, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen is available in all formats at public libraries and bookstores. (379 pp)