Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America (The Filson Historical Society)

The Filson Historical Society Presents The Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture Series Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America with Author Clay Risen. Capturing the panic that followed the film Oppenheimer, Red Scare is journalist Clay Risen’s vivid narrative of the post‑WWII anti‑Communist witch hunt. Drawing on newly declassified documents, it traces McCarthyism’s rise and fall—highlighting lives destroyed by political hysteria and drawing haunting parallels to today. A gripping, urgent lesson from history.

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