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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

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.921092
EAN: 9781400081059
ISBN: 140008105X
Label: Crown Forum
Manufacturer: Crown Forum
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: November 06, 2007
Publisher: Crown Forum
Release Date: November 06, 2007
Sales Rank: 10354
Studio: Crown Forum

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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.

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- Not Politically Correct! Thank heavens
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Blacklisted by History is a gripping story, which in many parts reads like a suspense novel of the highest order. But it really happened, and M. Stanton Evans captures the drama of the times. It is a welcome addition to the previous books, Seeds of Treason by Ralph de Toledano, and Witness by Whitacker Chambers.

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- A Real Life Spy Story
This book is a real "eye-opener" to what took place in the 1930's, '40's, and '50's in the US. Joe McCarthy took the fall for exposing a government that was infiltrated with Soviet communist operatives, part of a world-wide communist spy ring. This is a thoroughly documented and well researched expose.

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- I had no idea...
I had no idea the extent to which our Government agencies had been infiltrated by Communists. After having read other books on the subject (if you have not read Whittaker Chambers' 'Witness'...please do) I have a better understanding of American History in the 20th century. To this day there is a tug of war between Americans who want to preserve the republic envsisoned by the Founding Fathers and those who want to replace that model of government with a socialist system. The book discusses the undermining of Chang Kai-Shek in his battles with Mao as well as American support of the Soviet Union in leftist circles. Joseph McCarthy was stonewalled at every turn by Maryland Senator Millard Tydings and dozens of others who attacked him rather than evaluate his charges objectively. The author describes McCarthy's detractors up to the level of Harry Truman, which really surprised me. This book takes patience and is ... Read More

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- A Different View of Senator McCarthy
M. Stanton Evans is a journalist and long-time follower of the history of Senator Joseph McCarthy. The central theme of this well written and very readable book is that McCarthy did a great service to the Nation in calling attention to two circumstances that represented a threat to the USA:

(1) that there were people employed by the federal government who were Soviet agents or Communist ideological sympathizers and who were in positions (a) to influence US policy, (b) to access government secrets, including highly sensitive military data, and (c) to disseminate through government channels (including Voice of America) propaganda and disinformation favorable to the interests of the Soviet Union and leftist causes worldwide; and

(2) that although the Truman and Eisenhower administrations had taken some steps to screen such people and terminate or transfer some of them to less sensitive positions, ... Read More

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