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Joe McCarthy Only McCarthy can respond to this revisionist drivel: “This,” muttered the flummoxed McCarthy as the Senate moved to condemn his behavior, “is the most unheardof thing I ever heard of.
” This type of book is why people and high schoolers hate history, I dont know if the theory this guy is peddling is true or not about Joe maccarthy being a swell guy, It reads like the worst high school textbook youve ever read,

Another point I would make is when you get someone who wants to prove that a historical figure is the opposite of what the majority says you get a bloated and biased book to make them look good.
This book is mainly bloated with so many names that dont seem to have any reason for being there other than to show off the authors command of some little fact.

All of these people involved were wrong and all of these history books are wrong,
I couldnt finish this, Not because I did t want to see what else would be said about joe, but because it so needs an editor, The author didnt do joe any favors, Hes still blacklisted.
Steer clear unless you like your eyes glazed over in boredom, If you can read this book with an open mind you will gather valuable information, You must discard all the false “facts” thrown at you in school, And, please, forget the idea that McCarthy started HUAC: he was a Senator, for crying out loud! The mists of lies and fabrications spread for so many years will vanish and the truth will enlighten you.


Among the things you will learn is that the precursor of the investigations imputed to Senator McCarthy, was actually a committee headed by a Democrat innot even Wikipedia dare to deny this fact.
You will also learn the links between McCarthy and another communist fighter: Robert Kennedyyes, the very Bobby Kennedy! During the earlys Bobby was a staff lawyer to Senator Joseph McCarthy, made him the godfather of his first child, and when McCarthy died inattended his funeral.
At a speech by Murrow CBS attacking McCarthy, Bobby walked out in protest,

A must read for anyone, with an open mind, that is! Wow!, . . wow! This has got to be one of the most shocking and eyeopening books I have ever read!! This story of McCarthy is utterly astounding!

Well told and incredibly researched as theres so many facts it often reads like a textbook!!, it emotes strong feelings of anger and frustration for the many acts of injustice and wrongdoing done and which were hidden by the very government sworn to protect its people.
All because one man questioned the security risks he saw within that very government,

Wow! It really does leave you shocked, angered and somewhat speechless,

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Absolutely stunning defense of McCarthy, He was right all along the line, He was brought down by the progressives because he was too effective at rooting out their ilk from government service, Evans' backup material is flawless, His research is impeccable. This should be required reading at American

colleges rather than BHO's tracts in favor of socialism, An excellent book putting in clear context with ample evidence the true story of Joseph McCarthy and his pursuit to uncover communist infiltration and the lax security of the US government.
A must read for a true historical account of the era, Had to push myself to read halfway, then gave up, I think the author's point is that the Senate "investigation" was nothing but a partisan battle in which the Democrats succeeded in making McCarthy look bad, However, the author is so transparently partisan in trying to make McCarthy look good that you still have to wonder where the truth lies, Another annoying aspect, unless you are a serious McCarthy scholar, is the author's attempt to answer the details of every charge chapter and verse, I was interested in this subject, . . but not THAT interested. A biased, well researched book, OK, disclosure first, I didn't finsih the book, I stopped on pageout of, I just couldn't take it any more,
Evans' view is that Joseph McCarthy is undeserving of the mantle that history has laid out for him, He was simply the leading figure in the few that were properly acknowledging the enormous problem of Communist infiltration of the US Government during thes ands, Evans attempts to prove this by laying out the case against people that McCarthy accused, He has volumes of declassified files from the FBI and the former Soviet Union, He manages to make a case against these particular individuals, He makes no mention of anybody that McCarthy or his fellows accused with no credible evidence, He dismisses McCarthy's tactics and extremism, He has volumes of references and footnotes, but doesn't use them consistantly, Many times he made extreme claims that I wanted to double check, only to find no reference for that particular remark,
Evans is a journalist, not a historian, which comes across in his writing, A historian would have at least tried to appear unbiased, Evans makes no such attempt, His casual use of terms such as Red and Comrade interchangably with Communist and agent just make me question his entire premise and his arguments, and logical decision making,
In short the book the part that I read is a long condemnation of a particular circle of people in the State Department and other agencies during thes ands.
Little is actually said about McCarthy,
Ann Coulter would be proud, I'm reading this in small doses because I'm interested in the history of this era, but it's not pleasurereading, Evans presents a very accessible, wellresearched, and thoroughly documented look at how the communist organization in America succeeded in demonizing Senator Joseph McCarthy, Debunks many myths about his personal as well as his political life, Turns out that the real "McCarthyism" was the campaign that McCarthy's enemies employed against him, More "stuff you don't learn in school" not only was the Communist threat to the country real and the infiltration unbelievably thorough, but thanks to documents that have been released in the last few years, we actually have longsuppressed evidence that McCarthy had something right.
Not perfect, but he was on to something which, incidentally, had been pursued by another congressman a few years earlier, as well,

Even more remarkable is that so many of the actual records of his hearings and related archives are missing, That tantalizing bit alone is worth the read and it's in the beginning of the book,

At any rate, again, Evans is pretty wordy and academic although he does insert some surprising wry humor and I think this book is definitely worth checking into and reading what you can.


Don't let the term "McCarthyism" work its way into your conversations without reading this first, "Such reluctance to tackle the McCarthy question in the light of the new information may seem odd, but is understandable in context, “McCarthyism” is the third rail of Cold War historiographyand of our political discourse in generaland any contact with it could prove fatal to writers trying to get their work accepted in academic or mainstream media circles.
Its hard enough trying to rewrite the larger history of the EastWest struggle and of proCommunist infiltration on the home front, without the extra burden, God forbid, of reassessing the untouchable likes of Joe McCarthy.
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Despite being excited to start this one, I did not enjoy the writing here, I eventually DNF it, and put it down around halfway through, . .

Author sitelinkMedford Stanton Evans, better known as M, Stanton Evans, was an American journalist, author and educator, He was the author of eight books, including Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies,

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I am interested in books covering the Cold War period, so I put this on my list when I came across it.
Unfortunately, I found the writing to be seriously lacking here, . .

The book virtually epitomizes everything I don't like about historical accounts there is a virtual torrent of names, dates, places, and reports that are machinegunned at the reader, without providing too much if any historical context or background.
. . Name, date, place, report. Name, date, place, report. Rinse and repeat. UGHH
The narrative structure of this one will likely find many readers' attention wandering, and leave them lost in the woods at times here,

The book could have also done with a much more rigorous editing for the sake of both brevity and clarity, The versions I have clocked in at a bulkyhours audiobook, andpages PDF, Evan's dry and downright dry and arduous writing style made making progress through its pages a tiresome affair, . .




I rarely put a book down midway through, but I was not prepared to spend any more time trudging through Evan's longwinded prose.

star, and off to the "return bin, . . " with this one. .