“A vital chapter in American history, in the actual words of the upagainst-the-wall heroes and heroines who experienced the witch hunts of McCarthy & Co. This is must reading.”

—Studs Terkel, author of Coming of Age and Working

“Terrifying yet compulsively readable. . .Thanks to more than sixty vivid recollections in Red Scare, readers today may understand how political expedience led to what is termed here ‘right wing hysteria,’ and make sure it doesn't happen again.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“The interviews and the excellent choice of subjects give an extraordinarily vivid picture of that ‘low, dishonest decade.’ Griffin Fariello's introduction is a masterpiece of historical reportage.”

—Jessica Mitford, author of Daughters and Rebels

“Fariello has made a signal contribution by letting many of the victims—both famous and less-known—speak directly and often dramatically for themselves, and he has given us a succinct historical context within which we can understand these revelations.”

—Walter LeFeber, Cornell University,

author of America, Russia, and the Cold War