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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.921092
EAN num: 9781400081059
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Page Count: 672
Printing Date: November 06, 2007
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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 very 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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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 acess 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, these steps were half-hearted and ineffectual, had left many such people in place, and new systems had to be implemented to avoid further harm to the country.
Senator McCarthy very first called attention to these circumstances in a speech at Wheeling, WV in February, 1950, where he said that he had a list of Communists who were then employed in the State Department. It is well to recall that by early 1950, the Soviet Union had installed by main force a series of puppet governments in Eastern Europe that were repressive and undemocratic, and that in 1949 mainland China had finally succumbed to the Asian flavor of Communism under Mao Tse Tung. What is more, based on historical research in the last 50 years, there is now no doubt that throughout this period the Soviets had a large underground espionage apparatus operating in the United States, whose mission was not only to obtain secret military and diplomatic information but also to disseminate propaganda favorable to the Soviet Union and Communist doctrine in general.
To one reading McCarthy's Wheeling speech in 2008, and thus far removed from the Cold War politics of 1950, it seems like a level-headed, sensible warning to the Nation. Reasonable people in 2008, I would think, regardless of their political views, would say that these assertions by McCarthy were serious and should be investigated. If they were not correct, that could be determined. Instead, the Truman White House, State Department, Congressional Democrats, and the intellectual and academic communities saw them as "Red bating" and reacted with a fury that is difficult to reconcile with the nature of the charges. Rather than making a good faith effort to see if McCarthy's charges were true, these forces launched a personal attack on McCarthy, which in its intensity and vehemence is puzzling in the extreme.
The author tells the story of the Senate Committee, headed by Democrat Millard Tydings, that was ostensibly created to investigate McCarthy's charges, but in fact did nothing but investigate McCarthy. Rather than answer his assertions on the merits, the State Department made vicious personal attacks against McCarthy, all of which were accepted by the Tydings Committee on their face. As Evans points out, the issue of Communists in the US Government was a long-simmering flash point that went back to the 1930's, long before McCarthy joined the Senate in 1947, and exploded with his Wheeling speech:
"Among its many side effects, the war [WWII] would make the United States and the Soviet Union allies, a condition that gave rise to beliefs and actions spawning many future troubles. In particular, the pro-Soviet atmospherics of the war would accentuate the problem of Communist infiltration that had developed during the Great Depression. What had been a serious problem in the 1930's would now become a truly massive penetration." (p. 71).
This Soviet penetration of the US Government had been the subject of many Congressional inquiries long before McCarthy arrived on the scene. The Dies Committee, which evolved into the House Committee on Un-American Activities, made early attempts in the 1930's and 1940's to call attention to the problem and contain it. But the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, and their powerful bureaucracies in Washington that controlled the machinery of government, along with their left-wing supporters in the press and academia, reacted defensively, as if McCarthy's charges were a political attack on the "progressive" politics of the New Deal. They lashed out at anyone who sought to expose the many Communists in the Executive Departments and other New Deal agencies. They characterized all such inquiries as right-wing, political witch hunts, and viciously attacked those who attempted to identify Communists as the worst liars and charlatans. In reading this material in 2008, one can only wonder what raw nerve was touched by McCarthy's statements.
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This is one of the best books I've read all year. While the topic is dated, who now a days cares about Communist intrusion in our government, it was a book that got my blood boiling. It is amazing to me what the Government of this country can stoop to when it is lead by liberals of either party. Shameful.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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