Wayne's review
Blacklisted By History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
by M. Stanton Evans
Wayne's review
Blacklisted By History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans
Wayne's review
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A biased, well researched book. OK, disclosure first, I didn't finsih the book. I stopped on page 151 out of 600. 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 the 1940s and 1950s. 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 remar...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 the 1940s and 1950s. 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 remar...more
