Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
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Accused of making 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 tough, 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 incorrect, as veteran journalist and leader 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 battle to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks effective 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 certain 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 take place 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 nearly 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 fake, including conventional treatment of the legendary 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.
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Evans brings out some facts that are generally not known about McCarthy. Yet even if McCarthy was above reproach in conducting his investigations, it would not change the fact that this book, like McCarthy’s investigations, is based on a fake premise–that being a Communist is a terrible thing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book is certainly well written, from an entertainment perspective, but it is not a “history” book. There is a strong difference between promotion and analysis, and this one falls in the first category–much like the work of Ann Coulter or, on the additional end of the spectrum, Mike Moore. It’s another bombardment in the endless round of partisan bickering in this country, an ongoing skirmish that wholly distorts objective facts, marginalizes common sense values, and utterly screws useful pragmatism.
Taken in that context, the book is fine. As a history? Nah. It just doesn’t cut it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I shouldn’t be suprised, I guess, but I am at the venom and hatred in many of the reviews of this book that is directed toward ordinary, decent, honorable, and patriotic Americans. It saddens me that so many of these reviews refer to anyone describing themselves as “liberal” as liars and fifth columnists who despise the country of their fathers and actively work to undermine it. I’m a “liberal”. I grew up in tiny towns across the Midwest and the South. I work hard for a living, as do my parents and friends, many of whom also are “liberals”. I like my country and only want EVERYONE who lives here to share in the blessings this country has agreed me. That is a liberal…a name who wants to share liberty, not horde it, not keep it for myself so no one else can delight in the privilege.
I’m also an historian. I know the facts. The fact is, it was not the “liberal” media that brought McCarthy down. It was his own disgusted fellow legislators that said, “enough!” and stopped his despise mongering. It was his own alcoholism and paranoia that brought him down. Was it legitimate to have investigations into spying and covert actions directed by foreign governments? Yes. But McCarthy’s version of “jingoism” and the “truth” were beneath decent Americans; they ruined excellent people’s lives, excellent people’s careers and families.
And for the record, over the last 40 years it has been “conservative” administrations who have been thrown out of presidential office for treading upon the Constitution, “conservatives” who sold weapons to Islamic extremists in Iran only to give the money to extremists in South America, and “conservatives” who have suspended Constitutional guarantees like habits corpus and the Fourth Amendment.
When we turn on ourselves, our enemies win.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I laid aside judgment till I had concluded Blacklisted By History, and what I say here I say lacking agenda or influence by the opinions of others, be they supporters or detractors of this work. I am stunned and disappointed at the positive reception this book has received by persons who seem perplexingly willing to lay aside reality in the face of questionably open half-truths made by an apologist for a man whose harmful actions still scar many lives to this day.
Though the theme matter of this scholarly, chart-heavy attention-getter has absolutely nothing in common with the Holocaust, this book’s leader, M. Stanton Evans, kept reminding me somehow of persons who make the vomiting-inducing case that the Holocaust never transpired. According to Evans, Senator Joseph McCarthy was a home-grown hero with levelheaded Midwestern roots and a mostly selfless drive to aid his nation above all else. He sells the case that the real Joseph McCarthy would be better recalled as a national savior, one of the excellent guys who exposed a network of Communist subversives intent on the erosion of the American nation, a name unjustly ruined by the character assassination of revisionist historians who have committed a dark deed in labeling a patriotic public servant as an scheming demagogue. Evans’ efforts to rescue the posthumous reputation of a man irredeemably and rightly tarnished by his own devious cruelty frankly seemed an undertaking doomed from the start and buoyed by something like masochism.
What exactly is there to be gained from absolving the long-dead McCarthy in the twenty-first century? The endearment of the extreme right wing of the 2000’s, perhaps? I honestly do not know. While I judge anyone at all versed in the politics of the Cold War would concede that it was on the Soviet agenda to infiltrate its ideological foe, the United States, and that an ongoing effort to this end was indeed a reality, I want to reflect that persons who charge that McCarthy was, at least by the end of his career, a self-aggrandizing exploiter of paranoia whose efforts caused fantastic suffering have open a stronger case than that of Evans.
McCarthy as a victim? I reflect not.
It’s probably not honest or to the point to say that as I pulled myself along hand over fist through his suffocatingly heavy prose I personally establish this leader such an unlikable man in his arrogance and stubbornness that it clouded my feelings on the more inarguable points he made about a United Stated Senator so reviled that his very name stands as a by-word for intolerance and a self-serving witch hunt. While Mr. Evans is admittedly a man of scholarly insight and determination, one who place a readily apparent amount of effort into the research of this book, his bombastic assertions of McCarthy’s greatness, and his own modern-day challenges for McCarthy detractors to produce the name of one “innocent victim” of Senator McCarthy’s proceedings come across as disgusting.
I have no doubt the controversy this book has engendered has furthered Mr. Evans’ career and added to his sales, but I emerged feeling that the broad perception of Mr. McCarthy as one of American history’s fantastic ne’er-do-wells was the right one. Truth be told, I also reflect M. Stanton Evans is a frustrated outsider dwelling in a depression of his own tormented building, seeking praise from his fellow exiles.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I lived in Appleton for over 25 years. I talked to factually dozens of people who knew of or knew McCarthy. The best I ever heard regarding Joe’s character was…”Well, he was OK when he wasn’t drinking.” This book, for whatever reason, has place a new “spin” on the life and legend of what in reality was a truly vicious man. Do not support this kind of television journalism by buying this book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5