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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
By: M. Stanton Evans Publisher: Crown Forum Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Crown Forum Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 672 Publication Date: November 06, 2007 Release Date: November 06, 2007
Product 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.
Roller Coaster Ride of a Read! Blacklisted exceeded my expectations. I had been looking forward to reading a thoroughly researched study of the events involving Senator Joe McCarthy. And Blacklisted satisfied by providing exhaustive research. This alone would have sufficed - but the reader is also treated to the author's amazing writing ability. Evans has a talent for presenting his research in fascinating style. He brilliantly pulls together the facts and presents them in spellbinding manner. I didn't want to put the book down.
Blacklisted gives the reader a clear understanding of the players and events involved in Senator McCarthy's "fight against America's enemies". You will learn about the Soviet Communist infiltration of the American government and why it was covered up by the Administration. You will learn about Senator McCarthy's role, and about those determined to destroy him to silence him. Many of the facts are shocking. Disappearing documents, blatant lying, cover-ups, intimidation and destruction of those trying to reveal the truth, just to name a few. You will be stunned by the techniques and activities used to protect the Communist moles and their White House supporters, and to annihilate those who dared to reveal the infiltration.
Blacklisted also provides a good introduction to Communist infiltration methodologies employed in the U.S. Evans explains how the Communist infiltration of the American government not only created a fifth column in the U.S., but also contributed in some part to horrific events in other countries, China being a prime example.
Blacklisted not only provides an understanding of the past - what you learn here, you will be able to apply to the present and to the future. Don't make the mistake of thinking that history is just about the past!
People who seek the truth will be outraged by what they read here. If this book doesn't get your dander up, nothing will!
Stunning I was stunned by this book, and outraged by many many lies that have become the accepted "truth" about Senator McCarthy. The book is presents a wealth of facts that are extremely persuasive support for the author's thesis - that the senator was smeared by his enemies and that our common understanding is almost 100% wrong about him.
Fair And Balanced The author is and has been for many years a highly respected conservative intellectual,columnist,editor,writer and author. So, I looked forward with anticipation to this work. I was not disappointed. With painstaking precision the reader is taken back thru McCarthy's speeches, testimony, hearings and writings. It can be tedious at times. But, the proof is there that McCarthy was correct in his mission of exposing communists and their fellow travelers. Anyone on such a mission needed to be besmirched and destroyed by the liberal establishment. He may have been intemperate at times. But, it is well proven that he was essentially correct in charging that it was too easy for persons not loyal to the best interests of this country to hold important government positions. His downfall, unfortunately, was brought about by a republican president and his eastern establishment influenced administration.
Who Will Tell The People? With the focus on the opening salvos of the Cold War and Senator Joe McCarthy, author M. Stanton Evans pens a chilling account on how history and news is written, twisted & interpreted and its ramifications in domestic & foreign policies.
Peeling back layers of fiction that has been taken for fact, Stanton Evans reports on a number of disturbing issues; missing documents in federal archives, copies of media coverage of events permanently lost and the continuing disinformation that - in the present - destroys the past for those wishing to seek real answers to historical questions.
The research is outstanding and the book is a grim reminder on the lost and found nature of history surrounding Sen. McCarthy, the Cold War and the games played in the offices of the most powerful players in The Beltway.
Shocking and should be required reading Unlike all other histories of the period, including a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Evans thoroughly documents every one of his assertions. No innuendo, no truisms, nothing to be taken on faith. It turns out that McCarthy was not evil, he was just honest and happened to be right. The Roosevelt/Truman/Eisenhower administrations could never forgive him for showing up their flaws and set out to destroy him. Spying for the Soviets was perhaps inappropriate, but proving it was cause for character assassination. It's a shame that a whole generation and then some has been poisoned with lies in books, magazines, and movies about a man who just tried to protect his country.
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