Book Review: Red Scare

Here’s my book review for Red Scare by Clay Risen. Don’t forget to leave a comment if you’ve read it or plan to read it too. And check out today’s writing prompt at the bottom of this post.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen is a history book worth reading in 2025. It is meticulously laid out yet reads like an old-school high-society gossip column, if that gossip column were also backed up by copious amounts of research and first-account resources. It will also remind many of its readers that…