But why did you set it in 1950s “Red Scare” Washington, D.C.? What specifically appealed to you about the McCarthy era? Kate Quinn: The 1950s is an era we tend to think of as a quiet ...

America's first Red Scare, an era of hostility toward perceived "disloyalty" — and relentless government repression of radicals and others — began in April 1919. Organized labor, freed from ...

So it may be wise to consider the consequences of that previous era of purges, part of what came to be known as the “Red Scare.” At a time of intense geopolitical competition, the United ...

More than seven decades later, the legacies of the Red Scare have resurfaced in the United States – this time targeting China ...