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, of “A ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Clay Risen about his new book, "Red Scare," which tells the story of McCarthyism based in part on newly declassified sources.

For 480 detailed, tension-packed pages, Risen lays out that line without stepping over it, allowing the past to become prologue. He trusts the ... who also has written books about the Rough ...

We spoke with Risen in January ... McCarthy doesn’t come across as terribly intelligent in the book. Is that a correct assessment of him? He was a useful tool for a lot of different groups ...

The following essay is based on Clay Risen’s new book Red Scare ... and radar before World War II, he was now director of the Bureau of Standards, the forerunner to today’s National Institute ...

He won a National Book Award for “Spartina,” beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived for a time without electricity on an island. By Clay Risen John ...

But, he notes, the Red Scare can be hard to understand ... Until they didn’t. Risen’s book usefully lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible, from executive ...

though he didn’t see why his private political opinions were McCarthy’s business. This article has been adapted from Clay Risen’s forthcoming book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism ...

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