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Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism Hardcover – January 15, 1996
- Print length576 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFree Press
- Publication dateJanuary 15, 1996
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.75 x 10 inches
- ISBN-100684824272
- ISBN-13978-0684824277
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- Publisher : Free Press; First Edition (January 15, 1996)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0684824272
- ISBN-13 : 978-0684824277
- Item Weight : 2 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.75 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,064,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12,702 in Political Science (Books)
- #78,803 in United States History (Books)
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Powers unearths a lot of material and tells the story in a straightforward manner. Really impressive.
Many of the insights he provides in this book are readily applicable to the movement opposed to Islamism in the United States and the West. Very valuable.
Powers does lay into the anticommunists who were paranoid, witch hunters, and persecutors of the innocent. Who he places in that group apparently irks some reviewers. Also irksome to readers might be his dismissal of the excesses of the anticommunists as the outcome of a rambunctious but well-meaning political debate. Still, as his book relates and recent events continue to show, trying to place the ideas and principles of your political opponents outside the pale of polite society and proper civil discourse is a common tactic of the left and right.
While Powers criticizes the tactics of some anticommunists, he never analyzes their strategy or their motivation. He takes for granted that communism is obviously something that everyone--social democrats, Wilsonian progressives, Catholics, Jews, and libertarians--should naturally find abhorrent.
A more serious gap in the book that has widened over time is that the communists themselves mostly remain offstage. When Powers wrote the book the dust from the fall of the Berlin Wall was still settling. Even at that time communists were confused with social democrats and progressives. The book would have retained more of its value over time if Powers had shown the reader who the communists really were.