Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of ...

‘Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ by Clay Risen “As a scholarly subject, the Red Scare has never quite experienced its moment of glory,” said Beverly ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31. Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

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 ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31. Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

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 ...

Fear of the “other” is an unfortunate human trait. Conspiracy theorists latch on. Many in the background during the Red Scare were against the New Deal, using McCarthy and his ilk to discredit it.

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

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 ...

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The Red Scare in the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s featured in a ruling ordering the release of Mohsen Mahdawi on Wednesday. The legal U.S. resident was seized by immigration agents at his ...