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.

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 ...

RISEN: The Red Scare ended partly because the world moved on. Communism was clearly not a threat to the United States. People came to realize that. Also, the Cold War simmered down. But I think ...

At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its ... family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home, I experienced an instinctive moment ...

It's about an episode, how the anti-communist paranoia that gripped Washington at the dawn of the Cold War led to an often ... were the bigger threat. The Red Scare had spawned the Lavender ...

Clay Risen discusses his new book "Red Scare." The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed amid anti-communist fears during the early Cold War. That period of history is the focus of ...

and personal relationships under the long shadow of the Red Scare while setting the tone for the Cold War. The China-U.S. Trade War and China Initiative More than seven decades later, the legacies ...

The following essay is based on Clay Risen’s new book Red Scare: Blacklists ... The other was the sudden, terrifying onset of the Cold War, with its prospects for a nuclear-tipped global ...

The subtitle of Sergey Radchenko’s book makes it sound like an aspirant bestseller from the height of America’s Red Scare ... US won the “Cold War”’. The problem was that, as Gorbachev was cheered by ...

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.