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Mimi Geerges - Sep. 12, 2008 - Red Flare

Date Updated:	October 24, 2008
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Description: During the McCarthy era, the lives of many people were impacted, sometimes tragically, because they were accused of being Communists. Mike O'Connor, Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe: A Memoir of Life on the Run spent most of his childhood never knowing why the family would suddenly have to flee into Mexico. O'Connor is an award-winning investigative journalist. He turns his reporting skills to investigate his parents and what kept them on the run throughout their lives.

Then... Kai Bird, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is the award winning biographer of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. He led the Manhattan Project which gave the United States the world's first atomic bomb. But after he voiced concern over the bomb's use and the future of nuclear weapons, he was accused of being a communist and eventually lost his security clearance.

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