[JasonC]

Asleep at the switch more like. They gave it to Radosh because he worked on a previous book on the subject - but he didn't bother to read Evans, he was just spewing poison trying to cover up his own failure to get the story Evans got. NR should correct the record. The Evans book is first class, and Radosh has been exposed as an incompetent jackass - Ann is just twisting the knife here.

I can see why. There is a personal aspect to it. She has been smeared by NR in the past, both as an alleged bigot and as a supposed Bircher - including by Buckley on the specific subject of McCarthy. And she was and is simply right on the subject, and those were all smears. Going right back to the rift between Ike and McCarthy in the 50s really.

[Cicero]

In the circumstances, I think a twist on the knife is just what is needed to wake a few people up.

If, as you say, NR gave the review assignment to Radosh in ignorance, then indeed they need to correct their mistake, and not just leave it to Ann to do so. Otherwise it makes them look guilty too.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Asleep at the switch more like.

Strange thing is that Stan Evans is one of the original editors of National Review. Also, Bill Buckley's second book was McCarthy and His Enemies, co-written by his brother-in-law, Brent Bozell, Jr. It was written during the original McCarthy controversy from a generally pro-McCarthy viewpoint.