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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies Paperback – November 24, 2009

by M. Stanton Evans (Author)
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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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"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

About the Author

M. Stanton Evans is the author of seven books, including The Theme Is Freedom. A contributing editor at Human Events, he served for many years as director of the National Journalism Center. Evans was previously the editor of the Indianapolis News, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and a commentator for CBS and Voice of America. He lives near Washington, D.C.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Forum Books; First Edition (November 24, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400081068
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400081066
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.15 x 1.4 x 9.25 inches
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David Y.
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive in the extreme.
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2021
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TL;DR: Jam-packed with information relevant to McCarthy and his story, with some important background information often neglected by more mainstream (read: "lamestream") takes. More importantly, Evans actually cites and shows receipts (scans of actual (copied) government records and dockets). 9.5 out of 10, would recommend skimming through several times.

This book is so comprehensive that I feel the unironic need to use a string diagram board or something, in order to keep track of who did what. I wish I were joking. The book's so jam-packed with information, I found it a little overwhelming. Very little of it is inconsequential minutiae, either. As a student of history, I also greatly appreciate Evans's citations and sources. I also appreciate the legwork and research done, and his sharing the revelations with regard to the conspicuously missing public records, as well as the """news""" media's unwillingness to even acknowledge provable factual errors. Evans actually draws information from FBI files and other government documents and records, something which i believe already lends him quite a bit of credibility.

I must admit that I was sold on the idea that this book was a comprehensive account of communist and socialist infiltration of the United States from the 1930s onwards, having heard the title of this book from a commentator I frequently listen to ("God-f***ing-speed!"). While the book does cover a lot of these topics, it's focused on McCarthy and his story--as it says in the subtitle. It's a crucial piece of the puzzle, for sure, but anyone hoping for a broader overview or survey might be disappointed. That all being said, I'm not disappointed, in the slightest. At the very least, I have names and sources to look into, and to point others at. That's already more than I got from my woefully inadequate government-mandated """education."""

For all the negative reviews whinging about "conthpiwwacy thewwies" and "propaganda," I find the writing too dry to qualify for the latter. As for the former, I didn't really get the feeling that the author made any particularly significant leaps in logic that a conspiracy theorist would make. The book's pretty nuanced, focusing on countering the prevailing narrative which unfairly demonizes McCarthy. Which is funny, when you remember people crying about this book being "propaganda." Or maybe they're bots. Who can tell? What if I'M the bot? I digress. The author does point out that McCarthy "rightfully" deserves some criticisms, albeit not quite in the way that most people assume in some cases.

In short, I think this one's a keeper. The background information segments helped me fill in some rather large and conspicuous holes in my lacking knowledge base. Funny how little the lamestream talks about the turn of the century (19th to 20th). Especially considering how they lionize World War II.
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JanSobieski
5.0 out of 5 stars Joe McCarthy - American patriot who dared to speak the truth.
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2007
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This is an informative, well documented and well written book that is LONG overdue. It is eminently readable for such a long tome and manages to hold the reader's attention from the very start where Evans describes his efforts to obtain records from the National Archives, the Senate, local newspapers in Wheeling, West Virginia as well as a whole assortment of primary sources necessary to examine the history of this period. As quickly becomes evident: most of the germane records of great importance during the McCarthy era have gone missing leading us into an authoritative examination of the McCarthy period with a main emphasis being finding primary sources on McCarthy, his cases and the Cold War in general. Evans book is an attempt to discover the real story of Joe McCarthy removing him from the mists of fable and recycled error.

From the outset we need to get one thing straight - Joe McCarthy was a patriot. A patriot who was willing to speak truth to power, and for that Joe McCarthy was destroyed by the left. He has been ruthlessly vilified for sixty years, his name synonymous with evil and treachery. McCarthy gave up his reputation, and arguably his life, as the price for speaking the truth. And seldom is so high a price exacted for honesty integrity and the willingness to speak the truth. This book provides exhaustive documentation proving once and for all that McCarthy was correct, more, that McCarthy was an American patriot.

Today's children (by that I include all who identify themselves as liberal) are in perpetual adolescent rebellion against "the man" or, as they so fondly like to describe it, "the establishment." They need a bogyman against which they can play out their morality play in which they are the heroes. But, unlike heroes of the past, our current day warrior sacrifices nothing and gains everything in this Faustian bargain. They gain social approval and a sense of moral superiority that swamps all reason and turns right into wrong and wrong into right. Yep, these folks are heroes all right. Joe McCarthy served as their foil in their ongoing morality play. They were, and continue to be willing to destroy a good man in order to provide themselves with a useful foil where they are magically transformed into the apotheosis of good.

As a general rule, in the interest of saving time, to avoid confusion and to keep one's mind clear and lucid, it is nearly always best to assume that whatever a liberal says contains a lie and more likely a whole assortment of lies. That's not to say what they say often does not contain at least a kernel of truth, but rather what they say is calculated to deceive. Liberals trade in lies and the most you can expect from them is half-truths. Their attacks on Joe McCarthy however were made up out of whole cloth and through the monotony of endless repetition from every single cultural institution controlled by the left they managed to sell the ugliest lie of all - McCarthyism.

Now you almost certainly think I am exaggerating. Let me assure you: I am not! Are there well intentioned liberals whose stock in trade is not deception? Of course there are! You have the "fashionable" liberal - the useful idiot if you will - a sad lackluster individual who refuses to think for himself and is accustomed to taking the well worn paths of least resistance. And there are other varieties of liberals who do not consciously trade in deceit but who invariably are themselves deceived.

Now it has recently become fashionable for different stripes of liberals to describe themselves as patriots who love our country and its institutions. But their barely concealed contempt for ordinary Americans and their beliefs and traditions reveals an entirely different story. Liberals, in addition to being deceitful , are haters. And in order to justify their contempt and hatred they adopt crackpot ideas that are impervious to reason. You find them hanging out at the most vicious anti-American web sites.

The destruction of Joe McCarthy and the lies that were told about him are important for one very salient reason: it has served as the template for destroying all who would dare oppose the leftist agenda. Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas were both attacked using the same tactics employed against Joe McCarthy. Evans in this well researched irrefutable book puts a lie to all the slander against this great American patriot and hero. Five stars for this long overdue book.
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Phos
5.0 out of 5 stars 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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Jazeps
5.0 out of 5 stars A mass of information.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2023
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It might a bit overwhelming due to its size, yet I assure any potential buyer, if you want to more about the infiltration of communists into the political structure of U.S. government, their tremendous effort to destroy foreign relations with Chiang Kai-Shek, and other necessary revelations that might be useful with understanding the mind of commie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Like Eustace Mullins
Reviewed in India on August 18, 2017
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Superlative ' production ' that one could find to read it over and over again. It's indeed a gem of an addition to the library. The history of the US administration is revisited here. Like Eustace Mullins, the great researcher and the disciple of Ezra Pound, who met the same fate as Mr.Mc Carthy..
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5.0 out of 5 stars New perspectives on a controversial topic.
Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2021
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Great book overall. Opened my eyes to thongs I didn't know. Definitely worth a read if you're interested in controversial issues.
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