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Books : Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's EnemiesIn association with Amazon.comby: M. Stanton Evans  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $19.77 You Save: $10.18 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey 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 Studio: Crown Forum Sales Rank: 4928 Related Items:
Editorial Review: 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. 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - 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 ... Read More Rating: - StunningI 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. Rating:  - Fair And BalancedThe 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 ... Read More Rating: - 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 ... Read More Rating: - Shocking and should be required readingUnlike 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 ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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