A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom. Haynes argues convincingly that after the Second World War the American Communist Party was indeed a serious danger to the American body politic. . . . He has begun the necessary reexamination of a squalid era. Ronald Radosh, Times Literary Supplement. American Ways Series.