David Maraniss, a journalist and Associate Editor at The Washington Post, brings to light a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the University of Michigan and the Detroit area: the “Red Scare” and its impact on campuses and on the individuals and families caught up in it.
Maraniss will discuss his most recent book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, which offers an account of his parents’ anti-fascist activism at U-M, his father’s work as a reporter and editor at the Michigan Daily (alongside Arthur Miller), and the persecution his parents suffered during the McCarthy era.