Clay Risen

Photograph by Kate Milford

About The Author

Clay Risen, a reporter and editor at The New York Times, is the author of The Crowded Hour, a New York Times Notable Book of 2019 and a finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Prize in Military History. A member of the Society of American Historians, he is also the author of two other acclaimed books on American history, A Nation on Fire and The Bill of the Century. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children.

Books by Clay Risen

Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

By Clay Risen
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus Reviews

From an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the ma...
Learn More
The Crowded Hour

Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

By Clay Risen
The “gripping” (The Washington Post) story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century.
Learn More
BACK TO TOP