Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America
“Feldman’s compact history . . . charts the federal government’s ‘all  out assault on dissent, with a three-pronged attack of legislation,  propaganda and surveillance’ from the early 20th century on . . . .  Feldman ably sketches out instances of the trampling of [our]  constitutional rights . . . and offers especially fine analyses of the  McCarthy era . . . . Feldman’s history offers a sharply revisionist view  of 20th-century America that eschews triumphalism.”—Publishers Weekly