Megan’s Reviews > Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America > Status Update

I agree with your comment about steering clear of books leaning too far left or right.....more than once, I've found it takes away from, an otherwise, good novel

Have you read this one yet? Sometimes as long as the author keeps the politics limited to the prologue or epilogue it’s not so bad. But in books that are inherently political, it’s going to be impossible to hide those biases. I wish I didn’t have the bizarre issue of not being able to DNF a book. But I know there’s others out there like me. The only one I truly threw the towel in was The Pentagon Papers, and that really couldn’t be described as a book - more like an endless trove of documents which, after careful reading and collective analysis of them all - could be extremely interesting, shocking, as they were intended to be upon their release. But taking the time out to voluntarily scrutinize each memo and then put everything together is no easy task! It’s not as if it’s annotated, so no one is even giving you a basic summary at the end. Lol.