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McCarthyism: The Red Scare

Author: Fitzgerald, Brian

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 8.2
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 10394
Points per Word 0.000192
Page Count 96
Points per Page 0.020833

Description

This book discusses how the United States was gripped by a fear of communism in the 1950s and how Senator Joseph McCarthy made headlines by claiming that communist spies were working in the U.S. government.