Useful Idiots

by Charen, Mona

• ISBN13: 9780060579418
• ISBN10: 0060579412
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Syndicated columnist and CNN commentator Charen offers a moral indictment of those public figures--politicians, entertainers and professors--who, she says, stubbornly refused to see communism for what it was: a brutal, dictatorial death machine.

Author Biography

Mona Charen's column on politics and culture is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers. Before becoming a columnist and television commentator on CNN's Capital Gang, Charen wrote speeches in the Reagan White House for Nancy Reagan and worked on the presidential campaign of Jack Kemp. After graduating from Barnard College, Columbia University, she began her career in journalism at National Review magazine. She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE PERENNIAL EDITION	xi
INTRODUCTION: None Dare Call It Victory	1	(10)
CHAPTER ONE: The Brief Interlude of Unanimity on Communism	11	(12)
CHAPTER TWO: The Consensus Unravels	23	(32)
CHAPTER THREE: The Bloodbath	55	(22)
CHAPTER FOUR: The Mother of All Communists: American Liberals and Soviet Russia	77	(42)
CHAPTER FIVE: Fear and Trembling	119	(52)
CHAPTER SIX: Each New Communist Is Different	171	(60)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Post-Communist Blues	231	(28)
EPILOGUE	259	(6)
NOTES	265	(22)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	287	(4)
INDEX	291