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McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning Paperback – January 1, 1995
- Print length425 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGateway Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1995
- Dimensions6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100895264722
- ISBN-13978-0895264725
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- Publisher : Gateway Books
- Publication date : January 1, 1995
- Language : English
- Print length : 425 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0895264722
- ISBN-13 : 978-0895264725
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6,872 in Political Leader Biographies
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2012As a high school student, the leftist indoctrinaires they call teachers are eager to get at me and twist and misshape how I think especially when it comes to American history, and the issue of communism. Communist subversives, according to them, were very few and far between and therefore the fact that McCarthy made such an issue out of it, shows that he was drunk with the power that came along with his senate subcommittee and, according to them, he was a scoundrel, a demagogic liar, and an opportunist who ruined the careers of innocents. This book does a wonderful job of pulling the wool away from the eyes of the reader,(but then, of-course, it would, it is after-all written by the great William F. Buckley). The author very ably justifies the senator's actions, which leaves one wondering: if the Venona decrypts,(something which is unsurprisingly never taught in high school U.S. history), had been released at the time the book was written, Buckley's argument would have been completely iron-clad. 5 stars all the way.----------------- For those of you that have become obsessed with the story of this great American hero that has been unjustly vilified by the leftists which have rewritten our history, here is a list of other great books on McCarthy: -Joseph McCarthy: reexamining the life and legacy of america's most hated senator By Arthur Herman -McCarthy By Roy Cohn (who worked as his right hand man) -Blacklisted By History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy By M. Stanton Evans (most recent biography written around 2007) -America's Retreat From Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall By Joe McCarthy (the senator backs up his attacks on general Marshall who lost Korea and China to the communists, and paved the way for our loss in Vietnam)
- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2021Format: Leather BoundVerified PurchaseThis book is currently out of print except for Gryphon's edition which is beautifully leather bound. This Regnery imprint is like the Gryphon, and was the only hardbound version of this book at a reasonable price that i could find. HPB packed it perfectly so it survived the rigors of shipping. I will certainly do business with HPB again! Warning: many used booksellers are using a packaging material that looks like housewrap only thinner, so your rare book may arrive in poor condition. Amazon asked me to write about the reason i bought it. In a word: Research. Most people who use the name Joseph McCarthy or McCarthyism have little or no actual knowledge about the late Judge and US Senator and his career. This book attempts to look at both, as well as his opponents in Washington.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseGood book, even though much more came to light after this book, but good detail and Buckley's genius shows.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2021My copy from Collectible County was marked as “very good” but it is missing the dust cover, the pages close the beginning and end are coming loose, and the cloth spine is dry rotting, and several pages have browning from something have been left between the pages I assume. It’s a decent enough copy as a genuine first edition to sit on the shelf as a collectible. But as a copy intended to actually be read... I think it would fall apart before I could finish it.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2015Any student of the Cold War should have this volume in their library as it is probably the first, most complete and well documented defense of Senator McCarthy (published 1954), written only with the benefit of the official record of the Tydings and McCarran hearings.
Only much later did we have "Blacklisted By History" by M. Stanton Evans which had the benefit of the knowledge gained by the release of the Venona Files, which further vindicated Senator McCarthy.
As was noted by William S. Schlamm in the prologue, "Now anybody who wants to remain an Anti-McCarthyite in good standing, and remain intellectually respectable, will first have to read and disprove this book."
- Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2016you can be they won't be teaching this in the liberal colleges today. The plan to take over this country was in place decades ago. They pretty much done it. Mcarthy was right, but he should have been looking in the colleges, universities and his own government and state department.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2014A breathtakingly accurate analysis of a major political firestorm in the 1950s. The word 'McCarthyism' is part of our political vocabulary today; this book explains in detail what happened.



