Synopses & Reviews
Organized around a series of compelling portraits of leading politicians and ideologues. Red Hunting in the Promised Land traces the evolution of anti-Communism from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of Communism in our time. By shifting attention from its object, Communism, to its subject, American civilization, the book challenges the basic understanding of the nature of anti-Communism. It draws connections between antiCommunism as an internal control mechanism and anti-Communism as the instrument of foreign policy, relating these aspects in turn to a study of psychology, national mythology and culture.