Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
- ISBN-10
- 1400081068
- ISBN-13
- 9781400081066
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 663
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Crown Forum
- Author
- M. Stanton Evans
Description
Argues that, despite efforts to characterize Senator Joseph McCarthy as a demagogue who invented a bogus "Red Scare," his assertion that Communist agents had penetrated the U.S. government was correct, in a study that refutes the myths that have demonized McCarthy.
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