None Dare Call It Treason [Hardcover]

John A. Stormer (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 251 pages
• Publisher: Liberty Bell (July 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899667252
• ISBN-13: 978-0899667256
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #957,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books you could read about Communism, January 16, 2008

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Seth Forster "sideburnmikeguitar" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: None Dare Call It Treason (Hardcover)

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better book on how the Communists influenced the West and how our leaders like Ike, Kennedy and especially FDR sold us out to their goals. Stormer gives detail after detail. This is NOT speculation. These issues are a matter of public record which Stormer references continually. His research is thorough.

He covers a variety of approaches instead of pointing to some shady conspiracy, effectively showing how some choose to fight this battle of totalitarianism v. liberty in different ways. From the political manuevering of our troops, financial and military backing of socialist governments, concepts of containment, development of the CFR (which now even the mainstream media has been forced to acknowledge!!), to the numerous traitors (Alger Hiss, John Stewart Service, Lauchlin Curry), Earl Warren's anti-Constitution, power usurping Supreme Ct.

There are many details here that you are probably not aware of. That doesn't mean thesethings didn't happen. It tends to mean only that you were misled. I personally don't think it's an accident. It sounds cynical to view it this way, but everyone knows the adage that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton was right, and when we accept this we can change the situation. I can't say enough good about this book. The only issue I have with it involves somewhat insulting treatment of the actions of the POW's in the Korean War.

33 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An interesting look into history, August 3, 2004

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Michael Bird (Yorba Linda, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: None Dare Call It Treason (Hardcover)

After reading Ann Coulters bestseller Treason, I happened to run into this old book by accident. It seemed intriguing so I plowed through it. Now part of the reason I gave it just an average rating wasn't so much because I think the author was some kind of nut, the impression one may get by reading some of the other reviews, but simply because I'm used to excellent writing and more concise topics. This little book just jumps all over the place, tries to cover too much ground.

Now, as to the accuracy of his words, well, much of what he claimed to be happening has indeed been proven true. The soviets did intent to keep taking as much as they could and the fact that they failed doesn't in anyway prove those worried about it were wrong.

American politicians betrayed countless peoples to the insipid and cruel system of communism, and the only people that try and act like that isn't true are either leftists or those ignorant of history. Our own government was infiltrated by soviet spies, of that fact there's little argument, it's just how many and what they were trying to accomplish and what they did accomplish that brings up two arguing camps.

If you're the type that thinks Coulter is a fascist, you'll obviously gain nothing by reading this book. For others, you have to have an interest in the history of the time to really enjoy this book which reads much like a text book at times. Part of the reason I gave it only three stars was because of the age of the work and the period it covers, being outdated meant I wasn't able to pick up on a lot of the flavor of the work.
If you're doing research on the topic, however, I'd say the book probably would rate a four or five star rating as it gives details and footnotes and covers a lot of ground.

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ghost of McCarthy, November 6, 2010

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KnC Books "kncbooks" (Inland Empire, CA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: None Dare Call It Treason (Hardcover)

An interesting footnote to 1950's cold war politics, "None Dare Call It Treason" tries to send a wake up call to a supposedly sleeping America.

Like his hero, the unlamented Senator Joseph McCarthy, John Stormer sees the 'Communist Conspiracy' lurking behind every facade. Teachers, clergy, politicians, and labor unions form a ring of socialist spies and conspirators that will strip us of the Constitution and shackle us to the Soviet machine. From the United Nations to the White House no one was exempted from getting tarred with the Red paintbrush (if I may mix my metaphors).

The "careful documentation" heralded on the cover consists of copious footnotes taken from Un-American Activities committee minutes and the like, the majority of which are fragmentary sentences without context. Several times he classifies an individual as a "Communist supporter" and then cites himself as a reference "as previously stated". The only people quoted at any length are the vaunted McCarthy, and former FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, both of whom had known agendas.

I will not dismiss his work as paranoid - it is a fact that the times in question were full of uncertainty and well-reasoned fear. The cloud of nuclear war hung over everyone, and espionage on both sides was part and parcel of the times. However the answer is not in purging our infrastructure of dissenters and spying on our neighbors. These were the methods of Hoover ... and Stalin.

This book proves that conspiracy theories are always popular, especially when varnished with a thin veneer of research. And if you word it vaguely enough, there will be those who will come back years later and say, "See, he was RIGHT!" It worked for Nostradamus.