Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression:

Roosevelt’s remedies were…often inspired by socialist or fascist models abroad. A number of New Dealers…had been profoundly shaped by Mussolini’s Italy and, especially, Soviet Russia….Fear of being labeled a red-baiter has too long prevented historians from looking into Soviet influence upon American domestic policy in the 1930s.

Fear of being labeled a red-baiter? Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Amity proves that she herself is fearless.