For today’s episode, guest host Stu Levitan is joined in the studio by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Maraniss to discuss his latest book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father. The book traces the history of the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation into his father, Elliott Maraniss, in Detroit in 1952 and provokes […]
Red Scare in the Green Mountains, with author Rick Winston
The state of Vermont, which now has the reputation of being a liberal haven, was taken over by anti-communist paranoia in the mid-twentieth century. What happened? And what connections might this have to our current political landscape? On today’s episode, Allen interviews Rick Winston about McCarthyism and his book Red Scare in the Green Mountains. “You don’t […]
