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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.
M. Stanton Evans is the author of seven books, including The Theme Is Freedom. A contributing
editor at Human Events, he served for many years as director of the National Journalism Center.
Evans was previously the editor of the Indianapolis News, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times
Syndicate, and a commentator for CBS and Voice of America. He lives near Washington, D.C.
This is in epub, mobi, lrf, and rtf formats.
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