AMERICAN SCARE 6/17 LAUNCH EVENT

Join us for an evening with Robert W. Fieseler - author of TINDERBOX - celebrating the launch of his new book, AMERICAN SCARE: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives. He will appear with Gwen Thompkins, followed by a book signing

In AMERICAN SCARE, award-winning journalist and author Robert W. Fieseler delivers a damning exposé of how, for nearly a decade in the 1950s and ‘60s, the Florida Legislature founded, funded, and supported the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee—nicknamed the “Johns Committee”—an organization that used the cover of communism to viciously attack members of the NAACP and queer professors and students..

“American Scare is an important history of how Black activists and gay teachers were targeted by a legislative inquest in Florida in the late 1950s. But it’s also something more: The story of how this history was recovered and revealed after authorities tried to hide it. An important, riveting book both for those who value history and for those who want to understand the process by which history is preserved—and the ways the past impacts the present.” —Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker and Elon Musk, professor of history at Tulane University, and recipient of the National Humanities Medal

“American Scare is a fierce and chilling book, deeply reported and deftly written. Fieseler shines a bright light on injustices past and present, bringing a censored saga to life.” —Jonathan Eig, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller King: A Life