Blacklisted by history : the untold story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's enemies
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Blacklisted by history : the untold story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's enemies
Author:
Evans, M. Stanton (Medford Stanton), 1934-2015.
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Forum, [2007]
©2007
Physical Description:
viii, 663 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. A half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that image is wrong, as veteran journalist Evans maintains in this groundbreaking book, based on six years of intensive research. Drawing on primary sources--including U.S. government records and FBI files, as well as recent research from Soviet archives--Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. He also shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered it up--precisely as Joe McCarthy contended. This book claims to provide the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what really happened to America during the Cold War.--From publisher description.
Language:
English
Contents:
Enemy of the People -- Caveman in the Sewer -- He Had in His Hand -- Stale, Warmed Over Charges -- Unthinking the Thinkable -- Witching Hour -- Way It Worked -- Chungking, 1944 -- Reds, Lies and Audiotape -- When Parallels Converged -- What Hoover Told Truman -- Inside the State Department -- Acts of Congress -- Wheeling, 1950 -- Discourse on Method -- Tydings Version -- Eve of Destruction -- Hoax and a Fraud -- Of Names and Numbers -- Four Committees -- File and Forget It -- All Clear in Foggy Bottom -- Man Who Knew Too Much -- Trouble with Harry -- Book of Martyrs -- Some Public Cases -- Tempest in a Teacup -- Little Red Schoolhouse -- 'Owen Lattimore-Espionage R' -- Dr. Jessup and Mr. Field -- Conspiracy So Immense -- Battle with Benton -- Perils of Power -- Uncertain Voice -- Burning of the Books -- Scott McLeod, Where Are You? -- Getting of J.B. Matthews -- Moles of Monmouth -- Tale of Two Generals -- Legend of Annie Lee Moss -- At War with the Army -- On Not Having Any Decency -- Sounds of Silence -- Sentence First, Verdict Later -- Samson in the Heathen Temple
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ISBN:
9781400081059
Format :
Book
