Blacklisted by History : The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

by EVANS, M. STANTON

• ISBN13: 9781400081059
• ISBN10: 140008105X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-06
• Publisher: Crown Forum

Summary

"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-beforepublished 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 expose of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Third Rail
Prologue: The Search for Joe McCarthy	p. 3
An Enemy of the People	p. 15
The Caveman in the Sewer	p. 26
He Had in His Hand	p. 37
"Stale, Warmed Over Charges"	p. 49
Unthinking the Thinkable	p. 61
Back Story
The Witching Hour	p. 75
The Way It Worked	p. 87
Chungking, 1944	p. 98
Reds, Lies, and Audiotape	p. 110
When Parallels Converged	p. 123
What Hoover Told Truman	p. 135
Inside the State Department	p. 148
Acts of Congress	p. 162
Blowup
Wheeling, 1950	p. 179
Discourse on Method	p. 194
The Tydings Version	p. 206
Eve of Destruction	p. 219
A Fraud and a Hoax	p. 233
Of Names and Numbers	p. 246
The Four Committees	p. 263
File and Forget It	p. 276
All Clear in Foggy Bottom	p. 288
The Man Who Knew Too Much	p. 301
Mole Hunts
The Trouble with Harry	p. 315
A Book of Martyrs	p. 331
Some Public Cases	p. 345
Tempest in a Teacup	p. 360
Little Red Schoolhouse	p. 373
"Owen Lattimore-Espionage R"	p. 385
Dr. Jessup and Mr. Field	p. 399
A Conspiracy So Immense	p. 411
The Battle with Benton	p. 425
Hardball
The Perils of Power	p. 443
Uncertain Voice	p. 455
The Burning of the Books	p. 467
Scott McLeod, Where Are You?	p. 478
The Getting of J. B. Matthews	p. 490
The Moles of Monmouth	p. 502
A Tale of Two Generals	p. 515
The Legend of Annie Lee Moss	p. 528
At War with the Army	p. 542
On Not Having Any Decency	p. 557
End Game
The Sounds of Silence	p. 573
Sentence First, Verdict Later	p. 585
Conclusion: Samson in the Heathen Temple	p. 599
Notes	p. 607
Appendix	p. 631
Acknowledgments	p. 641
Index	p. 644
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