A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

by David Maraniss

Book Overview

Named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR and The Washington Post.

In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.

Elliott Maraniss, David's father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501178377
• ISBN13: 9781501178375
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"