I stand corrected...I will have to read more about those time..(It was little bofore my time) but I guess I learned the liberal interpretation in school and media..
I hear you. It is a long story for me, but...It started for me when I read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason”.
“Treason” is a book written by an openly biased author, so I took it with a grain of salt.
But what I read completely perplexed me. Ann Coulter’s version of what went on in the hearings (culiminating in the famous “Have you no decency” quote by Joseph Welch) was SO dramatically and diametrically opposed from what I had learned in school, read in articles, and watched on documentaries, that I literally felt that something was completely amiss.
Either Ann Coulter was lying, or the liberals that wrote the books I read in school, put the articles in magazines and newspapers, and made the documentaries were lying. There was no middle ground.
So...I located the actual government transcripts of the hearings.
And I actually read them.
You know what? Ann Coulter’s description of the events of that particular hearing (and others as well) was spot on. I felt like my anchor had been torn loose, and it was a bit disorienting.
The next book I read was “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers, and it changed my political life. I have never been able to view the political process in an even and unbiased way since then.
I have read at least a dozen books about that era since then, and there were some that really put the nail in it for me. Especially the books about the Venona Project. It verified for me 100% that Whittaker Chambers WAS telling the truth. And so was McCarthy.
Anyway, if I could suggest one book, I would recommend “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. What is most stunning about it is the absolute identical patterns of smear and discreditation used by the liberals in the government and media then, and those used today. Just hideous, but it is the way all liberals operate today.