Clay Risen

Clay Risen is a reporter at The New York Times, a member of the Society of American Historians, and a fellow at the Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book is "Red Scare." He also wrote three previous works on American history, including "The Crowded Hour," a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History, "The Bill of the Century," a finalist for a 2014 NAACP Image Award, and "A Nation on Fire." 

Books:

Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Scribner
March 2025
ISBN 9781982141806
480 pages

The Crowded Hour

Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
History / Biography
Simon and Schuster
June 2020
ISBN 9781501144004
368 pages