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 ...

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 ...

Red Scare sticks its fangs into the '50s and feels like a cross between Happy Days, Dracula and Clue. The story takes place in 1956, when a group of teens lock themselves in a fallout shelter ...

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 ...

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 ...