The Age of Anxiety

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In The Age of Anxiety, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson examines Senator Joseph McCarthy’s five-year reign over American politics during the 1950s. His zealous campaign against Communism terrorized politicians and cultural figures alike. In this new history, Mr. Johnson draws parallels between that climate of fear, and today’s current political anxieties.

» Excerpt of The Age of Anxiety in the Reading Room

Events:
Haynes Johnson will be speaking on:
Monday, October 10th at 7:30pm
Barnes & Noble
Broadway and 82nd Street, NYC
7:30pm

Tuesday, October 11th at 7pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave at 34th St
Room 9100

Music:
Cobb soundtrack (by Elliot Goldenthal) -- #10, 17, and 9 (SONY CLASSICAL)

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