num_pages: 160
description: Not long ago, Communists seemed to be everywhere: among our politicians, neighbors, favorite actors--even in our drinking water. Red Scared! is a wry tour of the frosty decades of Soviet and American adversity, when anti-Communist hysteria produced fairly hysterical pop-culture items. The voluminous propaganda that the United States produced to combat the Red Menace--not only officially, but in books, films, magazines, games, and more--is explored and vibrantly reproduced here. With a colorful text that serves as a useful historical overview, daring tales from government agents, plot synopses and lurid covers of unintentionally funny pulp novels, and much more, Red Scared! brings the Cold War back home again--this time around with humor (and relief)
language: English
title: Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture
titlecomplete: Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture
genres: Nonfiction, History, Sociology
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Chronicle Books