David Maraniss is a
New York Times best-selling author, fellow of the Society of American Historians, and visiting distinguished professor at Vanderbilt
University. He has been affiliated with the
Washington Post for more than forty years as an editor and writer, and twice won Pulitzer Prizes at the newspaper. In 1993 he received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his coverage of Bill Clinton, and in 2007 he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. He was also a Pulitzer finalist three other times, including for one of his books,
They Marched Into Sunlight. He has won many other major writing awards, including the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Frankfurt eBook Award.
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father is his twelfth book.
At
The Week magazine Maraniss shared his
six favorite books on the Red Scare, including:
High Noon by Glenn Frankel (2017).
Frankel takes readers inside the making of the classic 1952 Western about a sheriff who stands alone when his town's citizens are paralyzed by fear. Made during the height of Red Scare hysteria, the movie starred Gary Cooper, who despite his own anti-Communist views refused to disparage a screenwriter called before HUAC and blacklisted.
Read about
another entry on the list.
High Noon is among
Jeff Somers's top ten books that reveal secret histories.
--Marshal Zeringue
In the final volume of Rick Atkinson’s sprawling trilogy documenting Allied efforts to liberate Europe from the Nazis, D-Day is just the beginning—though his account of the campaign is riveting. Having already covered the Allied push through North Africa and Italy in earlier volumes, the author here turns his attention to the battle for Western Europe. This final stage of the war saw the Normandy landings, the liberation of Paris, the disastrous Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, and the final move into Germany itself—each of those representing powerful and traumatic moments in history. Atkinson utilizes extensive research and never-before-available source materials to tell the story of the final months World War II.
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