Posted on 11/05/2007 8:37:40 AM PST by AwesomePossum
Book Description Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts.
But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.
Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.
Blacklisted by History shows, for instance, that the FBI knew as early as 1942 that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U.S. officials were warned that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy almost a decade before the Hiss case became a public scandal; that a cabal of White House, Justice Department, and State Department officials lied about and covered up the Amerasia spy case; and that the State Department had been heavily penetrated by Communists and Soviet agents before McCarthy came on the scene.
Evans also shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false, including conventional treatment of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era (“I have here in my hand . . .”), the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, the matter of leading McCarthy suspect Owen Lattimore, the Annie Lee Moss case, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and much more.
In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. But as Evans writes, “The real Joe McCarthy has vanished into the mists of fable and recycled error, so that it takes the equivalent of a dragnet search to find him.” Blacklisted by History provides the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.
So I can open it in front of my liberal SIL and exclaim, "Look! The truth about Joseph McCarthy. Liberal lies exposed again."
Plan ahead for a merry Christmas!
Yep, Both William Buckley and Ann Coulter covered the topic.
McCarthy was exactly right about many things, but he let his mouth and ambitions out-run his abilities...
I wouldn't even say adequately. I read Treason and was disappointed in its superficiality. There was enough material on Sen. McCarthy for a magazine article, not the several chapters she devotes to it in her book.
I found her book repetitive and unpersuasive, unless one was already persuaded. Believe me, I love Ann and look forward to all her articles, but her medium is a periodical not a book.
She does have a special talent for vitrol that I enjoy and she employs it well in Treason but there's not enough meat in her books to make me want to go back.
IMHO McCarthy did very well, considering all the stumbling blocks thrown at his feet by so many enemies and so many "allies"..........What is of grave concern to me is how the Democrats (leadership) today are siding with the Islamofascists against Republicans, just as they did back then when they sided with the Communists against Republicans.....the parallels are astounding..........
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The lesson still is the person who tells the truth is the one demonized by the media. When the message can't be refuted, attack the person.
Of course, another case in point is Richard Nixon. He defeated Helen Gehagan, and he was instrumental in the Hiss case. The Left never forgot. They hated Nixon for decades and they eventually brought him down. He policies were hardly extreme (price controls??) but the point was that he was an anti-communist. So he was hated.
Yep.
But of course you make the mistake of assuming they want to publicize the truth. They know the truth; they want to hide it because it would prove they're traitors.
It is amazing how many people either forget or flat out don't know that.
Yes, U.S. Government Printing Office publications by the U.S. House (COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES) and by the U.S. Senate (SUBCOMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND OTHER INTERNAL SECURITY LAWS) are excellent sources, if you can find them...............
What is of grave concern to me is how the Democrats (leadership) today are siding with the Islamofascists against Republicans, just as they did back then when they sided with the Communists against Republicans.....the parallels are astounding.....Yup. Liberals consistently hate America and love our enemies.
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McCarthy was right - & now we are seeing the fruits of the problem our country chose to ignore.
BUMP!
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The 1970 report, which the Republicans widely distributed during that year's election campaign, is probably the most readily available, but the ones from the 1940's, when the colorful Senator Jack Tenney chaired the committee, are the most interesting to read. After shifting to the left following the 1970 election, the California State Senate abolished the committee.
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