A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father Audiobook (Free)

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

Elliott Maraniss, David’s dad, a WWII veteran who all had commanded an all-black business in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named like a communist by an informant, called prior to the House Un-American in regards to a Good American Family: The Crimson Scare and My Father Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in the us and emerged on the other hand with his family members and optimism intact.

Inside a sweeping drama that moves from your Depression and Spanish Civil War towards the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father’s tale through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they have a problem with the vital twentieth-century issues of competition, fascism, communism, and initial amendment freedoms. A Good American Family members powerfully evokes the political dysfunctions of the 1950s while underscoring what it really means to end up being an American. It is an unsparing yet moving tribute from a brilliant writer to his dad and the family members he guarded in dangerous moments.