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American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character [Kindle Edition]

Diana West
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In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacred history of World War II and its Cold War aftermath.

Part real-life thriller, part national tragedy, American Betrayal lights up the massive, Moscow-directed penetration of America’s most hallowed halls of power, revealing not just the familiar struggle between Communism and the Free World, but the hidden war between those wishing to conceal the truth and those trying to expose the increasingly official web of lies.

American Betrayal is America’s lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth.

American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR’s first inauguration, when “happy days” are supposed to be here again, and ends when we “win” the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II--Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders’ own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, “political correctness,” and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions: Does our silence on the crimes of Communism explain our silence on the totalitarianism of Islam? Is Uncle Sam once again betraying America?

In American Betrayal, Diana West shakes the historical record to bring down a new understanding of our past, our present, and how we have become a nation unable to know truth from lies.

 




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“Diana West masterfully reminds us of what history is for: to suggest action for the present. She paints for us the broad picture of our own long record of failing to recognize bullies and villains. She shows how American denial today reflects a pattern that held strongly in the period of the Soviet Union. She is the Michelangelo of Denial.”-- Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge and the NYT bestseller The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

"This explosive book is a long-needed answer to court histories that continue to obscure key facts about our backstage war with Moscow. Must-reading for serious students of security issues and Cold War deceptions, both foreign and domestic."-- M. Stanton Evans, author of Blacklisted by History

About the Author

DIANA WEST writes a syndicated column that appears in about 120 newspapers and online sites weekly, including the Washington Examiner, Townhall.com, and Worldnetdaily.com. She is also an online contributor to Breitbart's BigPeace and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New Criterion,  and The Washington Post Magazine. She lives in Washington, D.C.


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  • File Size: 954 KB
  • Print Length: 414 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0312630786
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition (May 28, 2013)
  • Sold by: Macmillan
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B008BU71BM
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67 of 71 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars American Betrayal August 19, 2013
By TJC
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This is a brave book if nothing else in that it offers a view of some of the U.S.'s more celebrated presidents ( Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower) that is at odds with the accepted narrative.That may explain the violent condemnations it has received. Nonetheless, West provides support for her claims and writes in a bold, clear style that pulls no punches.

If you like history and are willing to entertain an outsider's slant on things, you will find American Betrayal as interesting as I did. If on the other hand, you see Roosevelt as one of America's great presidents you more than likely to be as offended as some of the books harshest critics are.

One of the books recurring charges strikes me as true. The West paid a terrible price to defeat one monster ( Hitler), only in the end to hand Eastern Europe over to another monster ( Stalin). West goes to great lengths to point out that truth and to show that anyone who has tried to suggest that the results of WW 2 were not the glorious victory for democracy that we assume it was has been largely marginalized. If nothing else, this book reminds its readers that the Roosevelt all good and McCarthy all bad view of things is a bit simplistic.
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55 of 58 people found the following review helpful
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The further I went into pages of this great (probably "giant" would be more proper word – both in sense of giant toil it undoubtedly demanded and in sense of its content's giant message, to tell nothing about giant courage of the author, who couldn't but foresee the reaction of the Leftist world at her blasphemies!), the more often I was remembering the ancient Archilocus quote: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing". Now, after closing the last page, I'm absolutely sure that Ms. West is one of the few really-big-things-knowing Hedgehogs I had happiness to meet – and, surely, she is the sharpest-needled of them. I've read a lot of earlier honest books on her theme, both here, in my post-USSR Russia, and in the West, but "America's Betrayal" beats them all, - and not so in new well-documented details, facts or appraisals (thou' Ms. West showers her readers with a cornucopia of revelations), but in the entirely new tone of her book. It's not an impartial register of some recently declassified archives or a cold-blooded analysis of some long-forgotten speeches – not at all! It is a veritable scream of a deeply wounded human soul: "How could they do this to my great country? How could they fall so low, so servile in their hidden utopian creed? And how could Americans be so trusting?" It's surely one of the most emotionally written books in my life, - in fact, it's the first book on the theme, written not by a historian or a political guru, but by a patriotic CITIZEN, whose pages are constantly exploding with her righteous anger, with her searing pain, with her feeling of overwhelming shame. She is never indifferent, never "across-the-aisle", never "fearing to offend". Read more ›
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75 of 85 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Are 5 Stars Really Sufficient August 19, 2013
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I purchased American Betrayal upon the recommendation of a dear friend, a veteran of World War II and Vietnam, who serves
as Chaplain for the National Vietnam & Gulf War Veterans Coalition. When I made my initial examination of American Betrayal,
I came across a reference to Moscow Bound by John M. G. Brown, and was utterly astounded. Brown is an old friend and a true
patriot and by virtue of the reference, I sensed that the Chaplain's recommendation could not have been more appropriate.
American Betrayal not only identifies our enemies but also their supporters who smear and denigrate those who would deny
the opportunity to tell the truth and expose them. It also is indicative of our government's position and efforts, on the surface, to engage the enemy while doing little or nothing but render lip service, at best, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy at worst. A prime example is the government's referral to the recovery of America's missing servicemen (which they seldom, if ever, refer to prisoners of war)as our nation's highest national priority and as a testament thereof orders the
POW-MIA flag flown over government buildings. Nevertheless, those Americans still held prisoner were abandoned and exploited
by our government for political and economic reasons. However, as a face-saving measure to show its concerns the government
negotiates and bribes, to obtain the remains of our missing servicemen who were still alive in communist captivity long after the conflicts, from the Siberian Expedition in 1919 through Vietnam, were deemed to have ended. As Dr. Kissinger once referred to "military men 'as dumb stupid animals to be used' as pawns of foreign policy." Ms.
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183 of 217 people found the following review helpful
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Diana West's newest book "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on our Nations Character" is a highly researched, blockbuster of a story taking 356 pages to tell with 29 pages of notes. Heavily documented, her thesis is that the US didn't win World War II, the Soviets did with massive help from the British Commonwealth and the US. In fact, this was the conclusion of M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein's book of 2012, Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government. On p. 199 the authors state that "It's evident that the real victors of World War II weren't the United States and Britain, France or China, but the Soviet Union and its world wide web of vassals, satellites, and agents. This book is a great compliment to West's "American Betrayal." In order to accomplish this feat, the USSR had some 500 Soviet Spies and fellow travelers, taking orders from Stalin in Moscow, implanted in the State Department, Treasury Department, Agriculture Department,Department of War, OSI and various other departments, the media and even in the executive office of FDR himself in the guise of Harry Hopkins the "co-president." These people took their orders from Moscow and insured that the American People were lied to every step of the way about the influence of the Soviets on the policy and conduct of World War II, down to picking the Northern French site of Normandy for the D-day invasions. As West points out it would have been much simpler to invade Europe from Italy where the allies had beaten and discombobulated the German Army. From Italy the approach North into Germany would have made excellent sense. Instead, troops from Italy (including my father) were pulled out of Italy and assembled on the Normandy Beaches. Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you want to know what the news didn't tell ...
If you want to know what the news didn't tell you read this book.
Learn that McCarthy was a patriot.
Published 2 hours ago by loren watts
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden influence in government
I found this book very revealing. The influence of Russian plants in government on FDR and WWII was very scary. Even more scary was the parallels to today's government. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Tom Moseman
5.0 out of 5 stars This is nothing short of excellent!! If you can handle some very ugly...
This is nothing short of excellent!! If you can handle some very ugly truths that can potentially ruin everything you were taught about our (government's) role in WWII, including... Read more
Published 19 days ago by Tresda
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book.
Very informative, well researched and documented. Talks about inconvenient truths in our history that have not been talked about and that need to be talked about beause they help... Read more
Published 21 days ago by Urszula Oleksyn
5.0 out of 5 stars A Marvelous History of an important topic
So often contemporary books on public events and recent history are a stream of the author's thoughts without much supportive evidence. Read more
Published 26 days ago by Allen Roth
5.0 out of 5 stars ... the infiltration of our country by Islamists was so easy.
This book with its extensive references fills in the missing history of how the US became a socialist country on the way to Communism and why the infiltration of our country by... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Vernon Kuhns
5.0 out of 5 stars DIANA WEST'S BEST BOOK'
EXCELLENT FOR HISTORY STUDENT WHO DOESN'T MIND HEARING THE WORST ABOUT FORMER HEROES.
Published 1 month ago by Sydney Jacobs
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Very Informative
Published 1 month ago by Zen Master
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Excellent expose of the infiltration of the Communists and their attempts to undermine our country and our nation's character.
Published 2 months ago by N. Brooks
5.0 out of 5 stars Whole heartedly Recommended
Diana West understand the era in which she is writing as well as any of the younger authors I have read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Robert H. Boyer
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