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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First, I guess for our audience that might not have paid attention in history class, the Red Scare. Why did it happen ... There was the Cold War, obviously. But it got out of hand in a pretty ...

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.