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Mr. Book just finished Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism And The Making Of Modern America, by Clay Risen.

This book will be released on March 18, 2025.

This book did an OK job looking at the second red scare. As the other pointed out, the first one was after World War I and this was after World War II. Unfortunately, the book often left me wanting more about the topics that had just been discussed. There wasn’t enough coverage of many of the topics in order to satisfy me.

I give this book a B.

Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a B equates to 3 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

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Mr. Book finished reading this on January 17, 2025.