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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies | 
 enlarge | Author: M. Stanton Evans
Publisher: Crown Forum
Category: Book
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 24046
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.1 x 1.9
ISBN: 140008105X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.921092
EAN: 9781400081059
Publication Date: November 6, 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 first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing expose of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.
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 Don't listen to the Publisher's Weekly review of this book!! November 7, 2007
R. Smith (Crown Point, IN)
437 out of 526 found this review helpful
This book is very well written, using facts. Publishers Weekly's review of the book tries to deflect the import of this book by claiming that it is common knowledge that McCarthy was right about the inroads Communism had made into the U.S. government. The fact that McCarthy is still today called by Publishers Weekly "the egregious scourge" proves that what they say is not true. PW goes so far as to lump Evan's into a category of conspiracy theorist himself.
Buy the book and don't trust Publishers Weekly. They are on the side of the American Communist movement.
You will get a real history lesson that is very pertinent today, where the liberal media is seeking to rewrite history to try to convince the masses that "evil is good" and "good is evil".
The birth of the left November 7, 2007
M. Powell (Texas)
247 out of 322 found this review helpful
Very well written and very well documented. Irrefutable documents.
A roadmap of deception, apathy, and censoring those who overturned rocks the Democratic Party (also known by their card carrying aliases within the Democratic Socialists Party) didn't want shown.
When you read you will understand profoundly the foundations of the radical left wing of the Democratic Party and liberal nutjobs. Theirs has been a long succession of deception and undermining the American people.
Another Liberal Crusade Bites The Dusk November 7, 2007
Hellenist
138 out of 167 found this review helpful
This book, once and for all, proves a) Whiticar Chambers (Witness) and Ann Coulter were right about the breadth and depth of communist infiltration in the 1950's within the US Government. All those who said this was a smokescreen for bashing people with unpopular views need to read this book--taking time to consume a good deal of crow with each footnote.
Joe McCarthy - American patriot who dared to speak the truth. November 8, 2007
JanSobieski (United States of America)
316 out of 410 found this review helpful
This is an informative, well documented and well written book that is LONG overdue. It is eminently readable for such a long tome and manages to hold the reader's attention from the very start where Evans describes his efforts to obtain records from the National Archives, the Senate, local newspapers in Wheeling, West Virginia as well as a whole assortment of primary sources necessary to examine the history of this period. As quickly becomes evident: most of the germane records of great importance during the McCarthy era have gone missing leading us into an authoritative examination of the McCarthy period with a main emphasis being finding primary sources on McCarthy, his cases and the Cold War in general. Evans book is an attempt to discover the real story of Joe McCarthy removing him from the mists of fable and recycled error.
From the outset we need to get one thing straight - Joe McCarthy was a patriot. A patriot who was willing to speak truth to power, and for that Joe McCarthy was destroyed by the left. He has been ruthlessly vilified for sixty years, his name synonymous with evil and treachery. McCarthy gave up his reputation, and arguably his life, as the price for speaking the truth. And seldom is so high a price exacted for honesty integrity and the willingness to speak the truth. This book provides exhaustive documentation proving once and for all that McCarthy was correct, more, that McCarthy was an American patriot.
Today's children (by that I include all who identify themselves as liberal) are in perpetual adolescent rebellion against "the man" or, as they so fondly like to describe it, "the establishment." They need a bogyman against which they can play out their morality play in which they are the heroes. But, unlike heroes of the past, our current day warrior sacrifices nothing and gains everything in this Faustian bargain. They gain social approval and a sense of moral superiority that swamps all reason and turns right into wrong and wrong into right. Yep, these folks are heroes all right. Joe McCarthy served as their foil in their ongoing morality play. They were, and continue to be willing to destroy a good man in order to provide themselves with a useful foil where they are magically transformed into the apotheosis of good.
As a general rule, in the interest of saving time, to avoid confusion and to keep one's mind clear and lucid, it is nearly always best to assume that whatever a liberal says contains a lie and more likely a whole assortment of lies. That's not to say what they say often does not contain at least a kernel of truth, but rather what they say is calculated to deceive. Liberals trade in lies and the most you can expect from them is half-truths. Their attacks on Joe McCarthy however were made up out of whole cloth and through the monotony of endless repetition from every single cultural institution controlled by the left they managed to sell the ugliest lie of all - McCarthyism.
Now you almost certainly think I am exaggerating. Let me assure you: I am not! Are there well intentioned liberals whose stock in trade is not deception? Of course there are! You have the "fashionable" liberal - the useful idiot if you will - a sad lackluster individual who refuses to think for himself and is accustomed to taking the well worn paths of least resistance. And there are other varieties of liberals who do not consciously trade in deceit but who invariably are themselves deceived.
Now it has recently become fashionable for different stripes of liberals to describe themselves as patriots who love our country and its institutions. But their barely concealed contempt for ordinary Americans and their beliefs and traditions reveals an entirely different story. Liberals, in addition to being deceitful , are haters. And in order to justify their contempt and hatred they adopt crackpot ideas that are impervious to reason. You find them hanging out at the most vicious anti-American web sites.
The destruction of Joe McCarthy and the lies that were told about him are important for one very salient reason: it has served as the template for destroying all who would dare oppose the leftist agenda. Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas were both attacked using the same tactics employed against Joe McCarthy. Evans in this well researched irrefutable book puts a lie to all the slander against this great American patriot and hero. Five stars for this long overdue book.
A little fairness, please November 8, 2007
RaDadIndy (Indianapolis, IN USA)
99 out of 125 found this review helpful
It's not just that the Publisher's Weekly review is so slanted. When did you ever, ever see Amazon put a negative review of this type up-front for a book that is faithful to liberal politics? I love Amazon, and I order from it all the time, but I will drop it like a brick if I think biased treatment against conservative authors is becoming a pattern. By the way, the book "A History of the English Speaking People's Since 1900," is the best history book I ever read and should appeal to anyone who like this one.
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