Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America

Global Issues Series

by Joel Kovel

A paper edition of the 1994 account of anticommunist rhetoric and activity from the end of World War I to the 1980s. Considers opposition not only to various Communist Parties, movements, and governments, but also sets of ideas and values that go back to Native Americans. Includes a long preface discussing events since the initial publication. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: History, United States

331 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

Joel Kovel is Distinguished Professor of Social Studies at Bard College. He has written ten books, including the first edition of The Enemy of Nature which appeared in 2002, and Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited the journal of radical ecology, Capitalism Nature Socialism, since 2003 and has been active in Green politics, running for the US Senate in 1998, and seeking the party's presidential nomination in 2000.