Red Scare: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas - Paperback

by Don Carleton (Author)

Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.

Author Biography

Don E. Carleton is Executive Director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds the university's J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History. Carleton has published eight books, including Conversations with Cronkite, and he was executive producer of the award-winning PBS documentary When I Rise.