On This Day: McCarthyism and the Red Scare . On this day in 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) in a speech in WV, claimed he had a list of individuals in the U.S. government who ...

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against ...

“The so-called ‘Red Scare’ has been the main focus of most historians of that period of time," said Senator Alan K. Simpson. ...

INSKEEP: Clay Risen's latest book is "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, And The Making Of Modern America." Pleasure talking with you again. RISEN: Well, thanks so much for having me, Steve.

They’re also part of the story told in Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, which argues that the Cold War–era campaigns to purge the United ...

Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America, draws on newly declassified documents to tell these overlooked stories and paint a lively portrait of the ...

Ultimately, Joe McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin is the best example of this, and lent his name to the era. ... Clay Risen discusses his new book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, ...

RED SCARE: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen When the end came for Joe McCarthy, it was Edward R. Murrow who delivered the knockout blow.

Clay Risen, a reporter at The New York Times, is the author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.” On the morning of May 26, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase ...

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy. In truth, both Red Scares were ...

One section of the exhibit, titled “Talented and Targeted,” focuses on artists whose careers were upended by the blacklist.

In Red Scare, Risen depicts McCarthyism as a cultural witch hunt against all kinds of people, not just potential communist spies. Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism ...