{"product_id":"red-scare-blacklists-mccarthyism-and-the-making-of-modern-america-paperback","title":"Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClay Risen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an award-winning historian and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both \"lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible...[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)--based in part on newly declassified sources.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, for the first time in a generation, Clay Risen delivers a narrative history of the anti-Communist witch hunt that gripped America in the decade following World War II. This period, known as the Red Scare, was an outgrowth of the conflict between social conservatives and New Deal progressives, and the terrifying onset of the Cold War. Marked by an unprecedented degree of political hysteria, this was a defining moment in American history, completely unlike any that preceded it. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and with \"scenes are so vivid that you can almost feel yourself sweating along with the witnesses\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e), journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with the origins of the era after WWI through to its conclusion in 1957, Risen brings to life the politics, patriotism, courage, and delirium of those years. \u003ci\u003eRed Scare\u003c\/i\u003e takes us beyond the familiar story of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklists and toward a fuller understanding of what the country went through at a time of moral questioning and perceived threat from the Left, and what we were capable of doing to each other as a result. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thorough, impassioned...detailed, [and] tension-packed\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eRed Scare \u003c\/i\u003ereveals 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eClay Risen, a reporter and editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Crowded Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History. A member of the Society of American Historians, he is also the author of two other acclaimed books on American history, \u003ci\u003eA Nation on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Bill of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978316415277,"sku":"9781982141813","price":21.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/d_Be1znYrK9781982141813.webp?v=1775801588","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/red-scare-blacklists-mccarthyism-and-the-making-of-modern-america-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}