[SergeiRachmaninov]

I've had that book on my shelf for several years and really regret not yet having got around to it. I bought it mostly because so many people -- as you have -- give it a passionate recommendation.

Although I have not read the Chambers book, I certainly have paid a lot of attention to this period of history and bristle whenever I hear people on NPR deploring the "dark days of McCarthyism." And I hear this on almost every day that I listen to NPR. It is the world turned upside down.

People who think that either academe or the MSM delivers anything remotely like a straight-down-the-center view of American history have no clue.

[blam]

The John Birch Society was originally headquarted in Maine.
After Joe's death, they moved the headquarters to Appleton, Wisconsin, Joe's hometown. I often wondered if there was a connection.

[the invisib1e hand]

And I hear this on almost every day that I listen to NPR.

There is a simple but effective cure for this. I took it 12 years ago.