Posted on 02/13/2024 6:58:57 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
Today, with great enthusiasm I can let everybody know that the audiobook recording for America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall, by Senator Joseph McCarthy, (as of yesterday) has been completed!
It is high quality, great care was put into its creation, and since this is a free and open source item I would encourage all to give this to as many people as you can think of. If you have X/Twitter, Facebook, email, snail mail, whatever you have. Make sure you give it to others. What astounds me is how quickly this was strong-armed to completion. Very impressive!
America's Retreat from Victory; The Story of George Catlett Marshall
There is a free lunch after all!
What was once a book that very few people purchased, even less knew it was a work that is public domain, can now be exposed to YouTube which is one of the highest profile websites on the planet.
Here is the text for those who prefer it.
I think this book will do more to expose Librivox to the conservative audience more than any other.
I’m reading it!
LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts, creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. It was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire to provide “Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain” and the LibriVox objective is “To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet”
I’m working on a tiny screen. Is it downloadable?
Kindly pinging respondents of the previous discussion about this. Also added my ping list, added a few others.
Feel free to ignore.
Download the mp3s from here: https://archive.org/details/americasretreatfromvictory_2402_librivox
Thanks for the ping. I am very interested in that period of History.
Thank you.
bkmk
Can you summarize the most important points in the book?
Thanks. Downloading now.
No problem, friend… I can’t do it right now, but I will later tonight if that’s OK
Reading this book I believe is essential to understanding how communist China came to be, and thus, has significant bearing on world events today.
The book is not without controversy, obviously, because many Americans even back in the early 50s when this was written, viewed General George Catlett Marshall as a sacred cow who could not be attacked… But like the MAGA advocates today, that didn’t slow down Senator McCarthy.
People may say he took things out of context, he exaggerated, or he was just plain wrong, but he goes to great care of the document, his sources, and where he got his information from.
Thank you very much!
I’d like to hear more on this tonight.
Thank you. I just downloaded it.
It's audio. You don't have to read it. Just listen like I am doing right now.
Just skim the chapters and listen to any that interest you. It is super easy.
Thank you again for dedicating so much of your time to do this.
Before I talk about the book, I want to talk about Joseph McCarthy, because for me, this all goes back to Joseph McCarthy, who he was, what he did all those years ago, and how the ground covering his memory and his deeds was burnt, then covered in salt to ensure nothing would ever grow there ever again. Ever.
It was a form of malignant character assassination, unlike anything organized I had ever seen as an American.
I have, over the last 20 years acquired an interest in Joseph McCarthy. Oddly enough, it was Ann Coulter’s book “Treason” which piqued my interest. Like most people, I had grown up hearing how terrible Joseph McCarthy was.
My teachers told me. Television told me. Entertainment told me. Media told me. Politicians told me.
Everyone told me. He was a very bad man. A demagogue.
When I read Ann Coulter’s book, she discussed Senator McCarthy in some detail. And I was baffled, because the account she gave of him was diametrically opposed to what I had been told. The opposite in just about every way.
In particular, the famous account of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954 in which Joseph Welch uttered his well known “ Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” line which was considered to be the beginning of the end of Joseph McCarthy.
The account Ann Coulter gave of this exchange was so far from what I had heard my whole life, that I concluded they could both not be correct. It wasn’t just that they were different.
They were opposite. They couldn’t both be true.
So I got my hands on the official government transcripts of the Army-McCarthy Hearings, and I read them with my own eyes.
Ann Coulter’s account was far closer to the truth. And it began to dawn on me that all the people in my life, the teachers, the newscasters, the movies, the history books I was forced to read in school, the documentaries I saw on television, all of them, had either outright lied to me or unintentionally told me lies because it was what they had been told.
It was a great turning of the worm for me. And it wasn’t that all those people had lied to me which had the greatest effect.
It was that my country, and people I trusted had lied to me.
I was never someone who blindly believed my government. But the government sanctioned character assassination of Joseph McCarthy was extremely disturbing to me.
I view it now as my first realization that the government and the country I loved could, and was, weaponized against its own citizenry.
I saw the same dynamic when I read Whittaker Chambers’ book, “Witness”.
And it is what I saw what our country did to President Trump.
And that is why the life and times of Senator Joseph McCarthy are important to me.
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