THE SECOND HALF OF THE BOOK TITLE IS THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA. SO, WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES, WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF LONG-TERM IMPACT THAT THE RED SCARE HAD IN SHAPING THE AMERICA THAT WE LIVE ...

Risen dates the beginning of the second Red Scare (the first one erupted during the World War I era) to 1946, when Billy Wilkerson, the conservative anti-Communist publisher of The Hollywood ...

A new book by journalist Clay Risen brings back to life a period of American history after World War II known as the Red Scare. According to Risen, what should've been a counterintelligence effort ...

As a scholarly subject, the Red Scare has never quite experienced its moment of glory. During the second half of the twentieth century, the topic was too combustible to make for great history ...