Loyalties

Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer-winning reporter, turns his attention to home in this memoir. Growing up, he watched the anxious atmosphere of the Red Scare take hold in America, and he recounts how his own family, who held leftist beliefs, were targeted by a government that cast its actions as loyalty to the nation. The book follows the everyday life of a household that lived for decades under the watch of the FBI, showing how suspicion reached into private routines, friendships and work.