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Title: Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America by Ted Morgan, Random House ISBN: 0-679-44399-1 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Primer on the US Red Scare for 2000+
Comment: First: contrary to another's reviewer's comment (that seemed to fuel his position): the correct name for HUAC IS 'House Un-American Activities Committee' [ Dude, get it right before you react! ]
That having been resolved, this is an amazing chronicle of the birth and renaissance of Soviet Communism. The point of this book is to give the reader a comprehensive overview of the US culpability in the development of the Soviet system, all the way back to Wilson and FDR.
This is, no doubt, a difficult lesson, but it is outlined in (sometimes tedious) detail. And it leads us to try to understand the Post-9/11 "American Democratization" of the world we are now experiencing in other parts of the globe.
If you are one who is interested in the US machinations of this period, this is a work that reveals much to be discussed.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Manual on Bush Bashing
Comment: I started to wonder at the purpose of Mr. Morgan when he titled the second chapter "The First American Attempt at Regime Change". Maybe he had never heard of the Mexican War, Spanish-American War, and several of the other 19th century forays into Central and South America. Then on page 112 he states "[President] Harding has gone down as the worst President in the nation's history up to the year 2000". Since the book was published in 2003 Mr. Morgan has to be calling President George W. Bush the worst president ever.
I immediately flipped to the Epilogue and in skimming through it finally realized this book is nothing more than a collective Nixon, Reagan, Bush Bashing under the guise of some historical anecdotes.
Save your money, I wish had saved mine.
Rating: 5
Summary: Roots of McCarthyism
Comment: Although the basic point of view is not always in focus, the result is perhaps for that reason a distanced if not neutral perspective, and otherwise a very good and helpful history of the era of McCarthyism, and the sources leading up to it. The aberration of McCarthyism is clearer in context starting with the Red Scare period after the First World War and onward, with Edgar J. always in the background. It's odd but true that by the time of McCarthy the era of Communists in America was already on the wane,and the tactics of the senator were mostly rank political exploitation. Extremely fascinating in its detail from the attempted 'regime change' of Wilson in the Bolshevik revolution to the Communist phase in Hollywood. The book was being completed in the leadup to the Iraq war, and the comparison of the post 9/11 neo-McCarthist tactics of the Bush administration seems an apt reminder the red-scare tactics can be adapted to circumstance.
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Title: In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr ISBN: 1893554724 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black ISBN: 1586481843 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans by Lewis L. Gould ISBN: 0375507418 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore ISBN: 1400042305 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ISBN: 1594200092 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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