Red Scare or Red Menace?

A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era focusing on episodes personalities and institutions and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom. Haynes argues convincingly that after the Second World War the American Communist Party was indeed a serious danger to the American body politic....He has begun the necessary reexamination of a squalid era.-Ronald Radosh <I>Times Literary Supplement</I>. American Ways Series.