Blacklisted by History

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 US government. Evans' revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.
Drawing on primary sources, 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 US 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.
Evans 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, the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, and much more.
In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. 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. PART I: THIRD RAIL - Prologue: The Search for Joe McCarthy
Chapter 1: An Enemy of the People
Chapter 2: The Caveman in the Sewer
Chapter 3: He Had in His Hand
Chapter 4: "Stale, Warmed Over Charges"
Chapter 5: Unthinking the Thinkable
PART II-BACK STORY - Chapter: 6 The Witching Hour
Chapter 7: The Way It Worked
Chapter 8: Chungking, 1944
Chapter 9: Reds, Lies, and Audiotape
Chapter 10: When Parallels Converged
Chapter 11: What Hoover Told Truman
Chapter 12: Inside the State Department
Chapter 13: Acts of Congress
PART III-BLOWUP - Chapter 14: Wheeling, 1950
Chapter 15: Discourse on Method
Chapter 16: The Tydings Version
Chapter 17: Eve of Destruction
Chapter 18: A Fraud and a Hoax
Chapter 19: Of Names and Numbers
Chapter 20: The Four Committees
Chapter 21: File and Forget It
Chapter 22: All Clear in Foggy Bottom
Chapter 23: The Man Who Knew Too Much
PART IV-MOLE HUNTS - Chapter 24: The Trouble with Harry
Chapter 25: A Book of Martyrs
Chapter 26: Some Public Cases
Chapter 27: Tempest in a Teacup
Chapter 28: Little Red Schoolhouse
Chapter 29: "Owen Lattimore-Espionage R"
Chapter 30: Dr. Jessup and Mr. Field
Chapter 31: A Conspiracy So Immense
Chapter 32: The Battle with Benton
PART V-HARDBALL - Chapter 33: The Perils of Power
Chapter 34: Uncertain Voice
Chapter 35: The Burning of the Books
Chapter 36: Scott McLeod, Where Are You?
Chapter 37: The Getting of J.B. Matthews
Chapter 38: The Moles of Monmouth
Chapter 39: A Tale of Two Generals
Chapter 40: The Legend of Annie Lee Moss
Chapter 41: At War with the Army
Chapter 42: On Not Having Any Decency
PART VI-END GAME - Chapter 43: The Sounds of Silence
Chapter 44: Sentence First, Verdict Later
Conclusion: Samson in the Heathen Temple
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