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Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture

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)

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 160
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780811828871
  • Genres
  • history
  • Release date
  • 2001