The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
1. 
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 2. 
Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
by:
David A. Nichols
3.96 avg rating — 228 ratings 3. 
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to Hollywood to HUAC
by:
Karen Chilton
4.13 avg rating — 78 ratings 4. 
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by:
J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 7. 
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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
by:
Larry Tye
3.95 avg rating — 842 ratings 9. 
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
by:
David Maraniss
3.81 avg rating — 534 ratings 
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Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties 4.07 avg rating — 85 ratings
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TRICKY DICK AND THE PINK LADY: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1950
by:
Greg Mitchell
3.90 avg rating — 70 ratings 
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Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party
by:
Gerald Horne
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 
18. 
Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968
by:
Jeff Woods
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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Red Scare: A study in national hysteria, 1919-1920
by:
Robert K. Murray
3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings 20. 
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
by:
Langston Hughes
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 22. 
A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War
by:
Albert Marrin
3.57 avg rating — 110 ratings 22. 
World Revolution, 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
by:
C.L.R. James
3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings 24. 
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Over Here: The First World War and American Society
by:
David M. Kennedy
3.83 avg rating — 494 ratings 28. 
Making a Better World: Public Housing, the Red Scare, and the Direction of Modern Los Angeles
by:
Don Parson
4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 
30. 
Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
by:
James Zeigler
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
32. 
America's Reign of Terror: World War I, the Red Scare & the Palmer Raids 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anticommunism in the United States
by:
Regin Schmidt
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960
by:
Rick Winston
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings 36. 
A Tragedy of History: A Jounalist's Confidential Role in the Hiss-Chambers Case
by:
Bert Andrews
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 38. 
Crusade Against Radicalism; New York During the Red Scare, 1914-1924 (Kennikat Press National University Publications. Series in American studies)
by:
Julian F. Jaffe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
40. 
Red Scare in Court: New York versus the International Workers Order
by:
Arthur J. Sabin
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 40. 
Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Case That Ignited McCarthyism
by:
Lewis Hartshorn
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 42. 
McCarthyism: The Realities, Delusions and Politics Behind the 1950s Red Scare 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Alger Hiss: Framed: A New Look at the Case That Made Nixon Famous
by:
Joan Brady
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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McCarthy's Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935-1965
by:
M.J. Heale
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 46. 
Alger Hiss: The History of the Case Against One of America’s Most Notorious Alleged Spies 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran" 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Alger Hiss: Framed: A New Look at the Case That Made Nixon Famous
by:
Joan Brady
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 50. 
Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture
by:
Steven Heller
3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings 50. 
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating — 28,142 ratings 52. 
The Red Scare and the American Left 1918-1920: Wilson, Palmer and the Breaking of American Socialism
by:
Nick Shepley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
56. 
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
by:
M. Stanton Evans
4.11 avg rating — 691 ratings 56. 
Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me
by:
Martin Duberman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 63 ratings 58. 
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
by:
Glenn Frankel
4.12 avg rating — 960 ratings 
60. 
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
by:
Kirk Douglas
4.20 avg rating — 1,053 ratings 
62. 
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings
62. 
Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, and Interviews, a Centennial Celebration
by:
Paul Robeson
4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings 
66. 
Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America
by:
Jesse Jarnow
3.85 avg rating — 107 ratings 
68. 
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
by:
Paul M. Buhle
4.06 avg rating — 456 ratings 68. 
Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson
by:
Shana L. Redmond
4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings 70. 
The Wobblies: The Story of the IWW & Syndicalism in the United States
by:
Patrick Renshaw
3.79 avg rating — 108 ratings 
72. 
Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class 4.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
77. 
Joseph McCarthy: The Misuse of Political Power
by:
Daniel Cohen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 77. 
In Search Of Light: The Broadcasts Of Edward R. Morrow, 1938-1961
by:
Edward Bliss Jr.
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings 79. 
Maurice Rosenblatt and the Fall of Joseph McCarthy
by:
Shelby Scates
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 79. 
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points in History, 12)
by:
Bob Edwards
3.93 avg rating — 445 ratings 81. 
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Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture 4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
85. 
Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists
by:
David H. Price
3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
91. 
The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
by:
William M. Adler
4.05 avg rating — 328 ratings 
95. 
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America 3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings
95. 
Socialist and Labor Songs: An International Revolutionary Songbook
by:
Elizabeth Morgan
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 97. 
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Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
by:
Joel Kovel
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 