Book Review. Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America. By Clay Risen Scribner: 480 pages, $31 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from ...

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 ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s. By Kevin Peraino Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently, of “A ...

So the Red Scare was a period from roughly the end of World War II, 1946. It went for about a decade, 1957. Although it’s hard to put dates on these things.

His book, Red Scare, is about post-World War II America, but he says there's a throughline connecting that era to our current political moment. Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews The Pitt and ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t ...

Early in “Red Scare,” Clay Risen’s thorough, impassioned but even-handed study of Cold War hysteria in the U.S., the author makes a point of explaining what his subject is — and isn’t ...