[hoosiermama]

Precisely! That's an example of why I questions if Rabinowitz had read the book. Infact Ann points out many issues/truths that were completely ignored. Not to mention she missed the point of the bookand went off on a completely different tangent. Would have expected that reaction from a liberal, not Ms. Rabinowitz.

[Eva]

My guess is that Rabinowitz is Jewish and the Nazi/McCarthy issue is all that she thinks about in regard to McCarthy. I don't know what the circumstances of that were, so I can't make any judgement.

I would just like to summarize what I see as the main premise of the book (because so many seem to be missing the point). Ann quotes Whitaker Chambers as writing, "Other ages have had their individual traitors--men who from faint-heratedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th century, for the first time, men banded together by the million in movements like Fascism and Communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying the institions they lived under. In the 20th century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas."