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Title: McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare : A Documentary History by Albert Fried ISBN: 0-19-509701-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: What About the Venona Transcripts?McCarthy was Right
Comment: For decades Leftists mourned the deaths of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their son, Meerpool, established a foundation to perserve their memory. For decades Meerpool sought to prove their innocence. Every member of the Democratic party and the entire Left elitist crowd claimed injustice. Then, the Venona transcripts were declassified. The Venona transcripts were the word by word communications between the Soviet Union and its agents in the United States. Those agents were exactly the people McCarthy and Hoover had identified. Julius and Ethel transmitted nuclear secrets that put our country at risk of nuclear attack. Alger Hiss, the Harvard aristocrat, was confirmed as a Soviety Spy. Whittake Chambers and McCarthy were correct.
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible!!
Comment: This book is full of so many lies, it's scary! Today it is proven the McCarthy was 100% right, that in fact there were communists working deep within the the US government from now declassified Russian intercepts. Read Ann Coulter's TREASON instead of this shameful book full of opinion and no fact. Seek the truth, not garbage like this.
Rating: 5
Summary: Witch-hunt.
Comment: As Peter Dale Scott states in his excellent book 'Deep Politics', McCarthyism was one of the main scandals in the US in the twentieth century.
Therefore, this volume composed by Prof. Fried, with the most important documents about this phenomenon (laws, interrogations, judgments ...) is a most useful reminder of what really happened. Also, his analysis of the facts is objective and to the point.
Prof. Fried defines the red scare as 'a mass phenomenon that may have comprised a majority of the electorate, with one abiding passion, that Communism was the sum of human iniquity and that to destroy it all means were justified'. (p. 118)
Some of the villains (R. Reagan, R. Nixon, A. Schlesinger Jr., E. Kazan, L.J. Cobb) in this shameful episode of US politics, made brilliant careers afterwards.
The justification by those who accused colleagues and friends could be right (e. g. Kazan: The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy), but it was a most inhuman behaviour.
As Lillian Hellman wrote: 'But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience'. (p.138)
The overwhelming majority of the accused dropped for good out of their profession. Only a few, like directors Jules Dassin and Joseph Losey, found work in Europe.
I must recommend the above mentioned book by Peter Dale Scott, who gives a brilliant analysis of MacCarthyism: who really pulled the strings behind the veil and why it was abruptly stopped.
A most necessary reminder of an unnecessary and unjustified witch-hunt.
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Title: Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective by Richard M. Fried ISBN: 0195043618 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968 by United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities, Frank Rich, Eric Bentley ISBN: 1560253681 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents by Ellen Schrecker ISBN: 0312393199 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Naming Names: With a new afterword by the author by Victor S. Navasky ISBN: 0809001837 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist by Patrick McGilligan, Paul Buhle ISBN: 0312200315 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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