{"product_id":"a-good-american-family-the-red-scare-and-my-father-9781501178399","title":"A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father","description":"\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author and \"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eone of our most talented biographers and historians\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) David Maraniss delivers a \"thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) through the chilling yet affirming story of his family's ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElliott Maraniss, David's father, a WWII veteran who had commanded an all-black company in the Pacific, was spied on by the FBI, named as a communist by an informant, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, fired from his newspaper job, and blacklisted for five years. Yet he never lost faith in America and emerged on the other side with his family and optimism intact. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a sweeping drama that moves from the Depression and Spanish Civil War to the HUAC hearings and end of the McCarthy era, Maraniss weaves his father's story through the lives of his inquisitors and defenders as they struggle with the vital 20th-century issues of race, fascism, communism, and first amendment freedoms. \"Remarkably balanced, forthright, and unwavering in its search for the truth\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eA Good American Family\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the political dysfunctions of the 1950s while underscoring what it really means to be an American. It is \"clear-eyed and empathetic\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) tribute from a brilliant writer to his father and the family he protected in dangerous times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501178399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"David Maraniss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38027518509237,"sku":"9781501178399","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f8e2bc0e-f34f-44d7-8ecc-50df52e78980.jpg?v=1609193055","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-good-american-family-the-red-scare-and-my-father-9781501178399","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}