| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. By Ted Morgan. (New York: Random House, 2003. xiv, 685 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-44399-1.)

Reds is a very big book. In fulfilling its mission of chronicling, as its subtitle puts it, "McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America," it rambles through the history of Communism and anticommunism from before World War I to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Unfortunately, the author, a prolific writer and the recent biographer of the ex-Communist Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent Jay Lovestone, never explains what he means by McCarthyism. In fact, the main challenge this book presents is figuring out Ted Morgan's principles of inclusion. He discusses the American intervention in the Bolshevik revolution at length but says virtually nothing about the Communist party's activities within the American labor movement. He devotes four chapters out of fifteen to the political career of Joe McCarthy (including his judicial tenure in Wisconsin) but only two pages to the federal government's loyalty-security program.

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