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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent actions by the Trump administration — including the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil — have drawn comparisons to the Red Scare of the early and mid-20th century.

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 ...