Kathryn S. Olmsted is chair of the history department at the University of California, Davis. A historian of anticommunism, she is the author of several books, including Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism (The New Press), Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. She lives in Davis, California.
Books in order of publication:
Challenging The Secret Government: The Post Watergate Investigations Of The CIA and FBI – 1996
Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley – 2002
Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 – 2008
Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism – 2015
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler – 2022
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