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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies Hardcover – November 6, 2007

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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 exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.

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672 pages
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English
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Crown Forum
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November 6, 2007
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6.36 x 1.62 x 9.57 inches
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140008105X
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978-1400081059
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Evans's lively book seeks, first, to demonstrate that Communists worked, often successfully, to undermine American security during the Cold War. It tries, second, to defend Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the egregious scourge of American Communists and fellow travelers, against those who, in Evans's (The Theme Is Freedom) view, have unjustly ruined his reputation. On the first point, save for some new details, Evans, a contributing editor to Human Events, treads worn ground. Most scholars, having also used Soviet archives, concede his position and argue now only over secondary matters, like the guilt of Alger Hiss. On the second point, Evans has a tougher case, which he seeks to make as a defense attorney would: by conceding nothing to McCarthy's detractors. Evans is also given to conspiracy thinking—an approach that, by its nature, yields claims that can neither be confirmed nor falsified. Defense attorneys and debaters like Evans follow different rules than historians—they try to score points, not to advance knowledge. Evans is good at the former, his propulsive style carrying much of the argument's burden. But the history Evans relates is already largely known, if not fully accepted.. 20 illus. (Nov. 6)
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"America, please read this book."
-Glenn Beck

"the greatest book since the Bible"
-Ann Coulter, Creators Syndicate

"It takes M. Stanton Evans's meticulous investigative journalism to show what Joe McCarthy's short stay on the national stage (a little under five years, from February 1950 to December 1954) really was about."
-Robert Novak, Weekly Standard

"So comprehensive is Evans's research that it will be a foolish historian who does not consult Blacklisted by History when a question arises over some person or event that comes into the McCarthy story."
-John Earl Haynes, co-author, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

"This book will change forever how you think about Sen. McCarthy and the Soviet penetration of the U.S. government and society."
-Bob McMahan, Foreign Service Journal

"Evans goes through extensive files and transcripts with complete mastery of complex material and an engaging turn of phrase that makes more than 600 pages of painstaking analysis both a triumph of historical scholarship and a gripping detective story."
-David Ashton, The Salisbury Review

"Of the hundreds of books on the McCarthy era, Stan Evans has written the best—a nuanced, incredibly detailed work of scholarship."
-William Schulz, The American Spectator

"In this masterful instant classic, M. Stanton Evans sets out to tell the 'Untold Story of Joe McCarthy' and does so definitively."
-Jack Cashill, WorldNetDaily

"This is a master newspaperman at work: digging, interviewing the record, pulling apart and putting together the details of deeds done mostly by the politicians who ran our imperfect national government in the nineteen fifties."
-John Willson, Chronicles

"After combing through masses of declassified documents from Congress, the FBI, the State Department and other federal agencies, Stan Evans has produced a masterpiece of tru th."
-Terry Jeffrey, Human Events

"Evans, a veteran journalist, doesn't shout. He displays, instead, a deadly meticulousness that is, at last, overwhelmingly convincing."
-William Rusher, United Features Syndicate

"the most thorough scholarly examination of [McCarthy's] career"
-Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy In Media

"brilliantly documented"
-Wes Vernon, RenewAmerica.us

"monumental ... the result of six years of reading primary sources. Evans proves that almost everything about McCarthy in current history books is a lie and wil l have to be revised.... one of Reagan's old radio commentaries referred to Evans as 'a very fine journalist.' He is, indeed, but this book shows that he also is a Sherlock Holmes-type detective who chased every clue to find the truth and to write accurate history in elegant prose..... Everyone who henceforth writes about Joe McCarthy will have to check his facts with Evans' documented discoveries."
-Phyllis Schlafly, Creators Syndicate

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown Forum; 1st Edition (November 6, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 140008105X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400081059
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.36 x 1.62 x 9.57 inches

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Sherman

History Corrected

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2019

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This book is quite an eye opener to events both past and present. While the term “Deep State” isn’t used anywhere in the book, it is none the less on full display. “Blacklisted By History” does a great job of clearing Joe McCarthy’s name and exposing the hit job historians and the media perpetrated on him. Think things in Washington DC are any different now?
I suggest reading the “Verona Secrets” by Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, just to get a compass to help guide you through the many spies, sympathizer and fellow travelers.
I was impressed with Joe McCarthy. Very intelligent, with a photographic memory. While quite disorganized he was still able to multitask and generally stay ahead of his foes. He had friends in high places, the Kennedys, and enemies in his own party.
The book does leave a few questions unanswered. Why were Roosevelt and Truman so eager to placate the Russians? Why was is so important to not only cover up the Soviet infiltration of our government, but to keep known spies in place? And, why was there a push to make China a communist country?

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McCarthyism needs to be redefined.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2017

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This book is one of my favorites because it effectively destroys cultural mythology with tangible, visible, solid facts from that time. It is stunning to read how politicians and bureaucrats care more about their prestige than they do about ending corruption and how they care more about the establishment system than about stopping top secret information from getting to murderous Communists. And it's stunning to read how they did everything they accused McCarthy of doing. This book goes in great detail, describing each and every issue regarding so-called McCarthyism and what was truly going on behind the scenes. After a while, you start to realize that the real definition of McCarthyism is the attempt to stop a man from exposing and eliminating mass government corruption. If you like to learn about what Sen. McCarthy did and how he tried to clean up our national government on a mass scale, and how he was harassed and hated by the bigotry and deception of journalists and establishment politicians, you'll enjoy this book. And if you love to destroy cultural myths and delusions, you'll greatly enjoy reading how so many so-called historians, journalists, educators and others have seriously deceived themselves and many in the public into believing shoddy research, fake reports and propaganda created to justify the Establishment's self-adoration and to falsify what McCarthy did and didn't do. What McCarthy did was not wrong, sinful, unethical or even insulting. He was merely the messenger of previously-revealed FBI information about spies and potential spies which was being illegally ignored at the expense of human lives. Few people have the patience he had in seeking to fix this great evil. This book is super-enlightening in depicting how far he went in reducing government corruption and how far many politicians, bureaucrats and journalists went in stopping him. If McCarthyism is an evil witch hunt, it wasn't caused by McCarthy. This is a superb book and thoroughly researched. I bet that critics can only attack this book by personal insults and trivial errors, not by facts, as Commies and Pinkos always do.

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Richard

Right from the beginning.

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017

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Senator Joseph McCarthy saved the United States of America. The senator's reward was that his good name is now linked to the villains of history. This book provides an example of the saying: "No good deed goes unpunished". God bless Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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Michael Pappie

Vindicated!

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2019

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An extraordinarily detailed and exhaustive account of one of modern history’s most sustained and relentless political smear campaigns ever waged against an American patriot and hero. This is the story of the Joe McCarthy hearings. We all know how the Liberal Left has mocked, ridiculed and denigrated Joseph McCarthy. Mr. Evans has painstakingly assembled a much more accurate and truthful picture of exactly what Joseph McCarthy was really up against and the forces that wanted to destroy him both politically and personally. Thanks to Mr. Evans work and the release of the Venona Files we can now see and say with great confidence that Joseph McCarty has at last been vindicated! Blacklisted By History reads like a first rate detective novel. For anyone who wants to get past the wall of lies and propaganda that the Left has been generating now for decades about Joseph McCarthy this book is a must read. Five stars out of five stars!

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Pete Jones

one of the two best speakers that I ever heard in my life

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2017

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The communists have a long-time policy of smearing someone, even if the person has been dead for ever. That is what they have been doing to Senator McCarthy ever since they ran into him. This book sets the real record straight about him. He was a true patriot, and this book should be read by anyone interested in what was happening with the Reds earlier on.
I heard McCarthy speak in 1951, and he was really dynamic, one of the two best speakers that I ever heard in my life. The author has been around in the pro-American, conservative side for decades, and writes only the truth.

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Peter F.

Such a biased account

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2019

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Propaganda

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lisa hicks

A very different view of the recent past

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2017

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Interesting, well- written and researched. Shows a very different view of the recent past

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Jeremy G.

One of the best books I have ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2014

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One of the best books I have ever read. It should be required reading in all schools but of course it isn't and never will be!

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Phos

Necessary antidote to the McCarthy myth.

Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2022

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Communists whose penetration of the Truman and Roosevelt administrations reached the highest levels managed to figuratively kill the messenger exposing them - Senator McCarthy. They made his name synonymous with witch-hunting when the communist witches were provably real.

Using Soviet archives briefly opened during Glasnost for the Venona Papers and FBI files opened after 50 years, the author of this book, a respected historian has in turn exposed the communist propaganda that won the battle for first elite, then public opinion when fed the elite's wrong conclusions. Not a single innocent life was ruined by McCarthy except his own by being the sacrificial lamb for exposing the communist cockroaches who outlasted him.

With his best researched book, M. Stanton Evans proved that the single poster girl usually proposed as innocent victim was in fact a card carrying communist. He challenged anyone "to name names" i.e. come up with a single individual whose life or livelihood were ruined by McCarthy's revelations, offering to pay thousands of dollars for proof. From the time his book came out in 2007 to his death in 2015, there were no takers.

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Reviewed in Brazil on June 6, 2018

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Quoting Pat Buchanan: "Witch hunt? The FDR and Truman administrations were shot through with treason. Alger Hiss, who was with FDR at Yalta and Truman in San Francisco when the U.N. was founded, was a Stalinist spy, exposed by Whittaker Chambers and Rep. Richard Nixon. Harry Dexter White, Treasury’s No. 2, who pushed the infamous Morgenthau Plan to turn Germany into a pastureland, was a Soviet agent, as was White House aide Laughlin Currie and State’s Laurence Duggan, whose treason was confirmed by the VENONA decrypts of Soviet cables in 1995. William Remington at Commerce was convicted of perjury for denying his ties to a spy ring. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for their role in betraying the secrets of the atom bomb." May 24, 2010 at 10:53 pm
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If you want to understand how america lost the war to communism you must read this book to understand why it was so important to destroy Sen. McCarthy

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