罗斯福“新政”是20世纪美国历史上的重大转折,学术界的相关研究十分丰富。“冷战”开始于20世纪中期,持续了近半个世纪并对全世界产生了深远影响,这两者之间有密切关系吗?冷战初期美国的反共恐怖对美国社会造成了多大伤害?麦卡锡主义背后的文化因素是什么?《第二次红色恐怖与新政左派的消失》~①一书通过考察冷战初期美国反民主逆流中受害者的经历对以上问题提出了自己的看法。该书作者认为,在20世纪40年代末到50 Roosevelt “New Deal ” is a major turning point in the history of the 20th century in the United States, the relevant academic research is very rich. Since the “Cold War” began in the mid-20th century and lasted for nearly half a century and had a profound impact on the world, is there any close relationship between the two? Was the U.S. anti-communist terror inflicted great harm to American society during the Cold War? What are the cultural factors behind McCarthyism? “The second red terror and the disappearance of the New Deal left” put forward their own views on the above issues by examining the experiences of the victims in the anti-democratic counter-current in the United States during the early Cold War era. The author of the book considered it to be 50 in the late 1940s