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Blacklisted by History

The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies

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Blacklisted by History

By: M. Stanton Evans
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
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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’ revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. Drawing on primary sources, 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.

Evans 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, the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, and much more.

In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. 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 exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.

©2007 M. Stanton Evans (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Americas Politicians Politics & Activism United States Government Military China Franklin D Roosevelt Imperialism Imperial Japan Soviet Union Cold War Russia Self-Determination

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Critic reviews

“Please, America, read this book.” (Glenn Beck)
“[T]he greatest book since the Bible.” (Ann Coulter)
“Evans goes through extensive files and transcripts with complete mastery of complex material and an engaging turn of phrase that makes more than six hundred pages of painstaking analysis both a triumph of historical scholarship and a gripping detective story.” ( Salisbury Review)
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Anything but a dry political tale. Evans tells a dramatic story of a man who took on communists within the government, and consecutive administrations who wanted to cover up their mistakes.

Weiner brings that drama to life with one of those “phonebook” voices. There are some books I’ve listened to on here where I would’ve enjoyed them more if only it was someone like him reading them.

A cinematic story, a worthy narrator

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