Red Scared!

The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture

• Author(s): Michael Barson, Steven Heller,
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Pages: 160
• ISBN_10: 0811828875
  ISBN_13: 9780811828871
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / 20th Century , History / Modern / 20th Century / General , History / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War , Photography / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / Security (National & International) , Social Science / Popular Culture ,

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)