Red Scared!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture

by Steven Heller and Michael Barson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811828875
• ISBN13: 9780811828871
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 10.0"