Description
Using the two 20th Century “Red Scare” eras as case studies, Dan looks at the fear that can be generated by potentially dangerous ideas and examines the way such powerful mass emotions can cloud human judgment.
Dan’s research and book list
1. Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era by John Earl Haynes
2. Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition by Griffin Fariello
3. The Culture of the Cold War (The American Moment) by Stephen J. Whitfield
4. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry
5. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Internal Security, 1946-48 by Richard M. Freeland
6. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy by David M. Oshinsky
7. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich and Barry Pateman
8. Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz
9. The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest
10. Stalin: Breaker of Nations by Robert Conquest
11. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
12. The Psychology of Physical Violence (essay) by Emma Goldman (1917) (NOT AVAILABLE ON AMAZON)
13. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage
Piddyx –
This was made in 2011, but you would think it was made to explain some of the hysteria of 2017.
Julia.Pikachu –
Excellent. Another episode I can’t stop replaying over and over again, both for fun and to re-examine parts I may not have fully appreciated in the previous excitement of listening. Every episode so far has been the gift that keeps on giving, like a magical dopamine dispenser that never breaks or fails to deliver awesomeness.
travisgcheek –
Hard hitting stories of those who oppose traditional government and capitalist ways. Communism itself seems like an innocent idea aimed at helping the poor but ultimately twisted by evil men.