According to newspaper headlines and television pundits, the cold
war ended many months ago; the age of Big Two confrontation is
over. But forty years ago, Americans were experiencing the
beginnings of another era--of the fevered anti-communism that came
to be known as McCarthyism. During this period, the Cincinnati Reds
felt compelled to rename themselves briefly the "Redlegs" to avoid
confusion with the other reds, and one citizen in Indiana
campaigned to have The Adventures of Robin Hood removed from
library shelves because the story's subversive message encouraged
robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. These developments
grew out of a far-reaching anxiety over communism that
characterized the McCarthy Era.
Richard Fried's Nightmare in Red offers a riveting and
comprehensive account of this crucial time. He traces the second
Red Scare's antecedents back to the 1930s, and presents an engaging
narrative about the many different people who became involved in
the drama of the anti-communist fervor, from the New Deal era and
World War II, through the early years of the cold war, to the peak
of McCarthyism, and beyond McCarthy's censure to the decline of the
House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1960s. Along the
way, we meet the familiar figures of the period--Presidents
Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower, the young Richard Nixon, and, of
course, the Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. But more
importantly, Fried reveals the wholesale effect of McCarthyism on
the lives of thousands of ordinary people, from teachers and
lawyers to college students, factory workers, and janitors.
Together with coverage of such famous incidents as the ordeal of
the Hollywood Ten (which led to the entertainment world's notorious
blacklist) and the Alger Hiss case, Fried also portrays a wealth of
little-known but telling episodes involving victims and victimizers
of anti-communist politics at the state and local levels.
Providing the most complete history of the rise and fall of the
phenomenon known as McCarthyism, Nightmare in Red shows that it
involved far more than just Joe McCarthy.
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