Blacklisted by history ebook

Publisher The Crown Publishing Group. Release 06 November Search for a digital library with this title Search by city, ZIP code, or library name Learn more about precise location detection. View more libraries 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. Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—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. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U. In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. The refusal of ten members of the film industry to answer the question in led to the decision by studio bosses to fire them and never to hire known Communists in the future.

The Hearings led to scores of actors, writers and directors being named as Communists or sympathisers. What was HUAC? What values were at stake in the confrontation between Left and Right that saw the former so resoundingly defeated and expelled from Hollywood?

Answers to these and other questions are offered via analyses of the motives of the various players and of the tactics deployed by HUAC to reward collaboration and punish dissent. Co-written by the author of Blacklisted by History. Too often, the "Hollywood Ten" brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch-hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech.

The truth is shocking: Not only did these supposed liberal paragons adore Josef Stalin and take their orders directly from the Communist Party, but they also sympathized with Adolf Hitler. Ryskind, who grew up in the heart of the Hollywood scene and personally knew many of the key players in this real-life Hollywood drama, has penned a definitive, myth-busting account of the Hollywood Ten and Hollywood Blacklist that will forever change the way you think about the ideological battle waged in the movie capital of the world.

Most of them, including screenwriter Paul Jarrico — , invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about their political associations.

Evans is also given to conspiracy thinking an approach that, by its nature, yields claims that can neither be confirmed nor falsified. Defense attorneys and debaters like Evans follow different rules than historians they try to score points, not to advance knowledge. Evans is good at the former, his propulsive style carrying much of the argument's burden. But the history Evans relates is already largely known, if not fully accepted.. This is what really happened, but there was a cover up by many high up goverment officials within our country.

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