They weren’t public about it. Murrow would hire them to write scripts for various shows that he was doing that didn’t ...

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ by Clay Risen “As a scholarly subject, the Red Scare has never ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s. By Kevin Peraino Kevin Peraino is the author, most recently ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and the MAGA movement.

The closest analogue to this squalid moment is the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, when the right exploited widespread fear of communist infiltration to purge leftists from government and ...

Murrow would hire them to write scripts for various shows that he was doing that didn’t necessarily have anything explicitly to do with the Red Scare. But so much of the history of America that ...