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Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
Amazon ^ | September 10, 2010 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 08/03/2012 9:49:27 AM PDT by KyGeezer

In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: the prominent role of the “dupe.” From the Bolshevik Revolution through the Cold War and right up to the present, many progressives have unwittingly aided some of America’s most dangerous opponents.

Based on never-before-published FBI files, Soviet archives, and other primary sources, Dupes exposes the legions of liberals who have furthered the objectives of America’s adversaries. Kengor shows not only how such dupes contributed to history’s most destructive ideology—Communism, which claimed at least 100 million lives—but also why they are so relevant to today’s politics.

Dupes reveals:

Shocking reports on how Senator Ted Kennedy secretly approached the Soviet leadership to undermine not one but two American presidents

Stunning new evidence that Frank Marshall Davis—mentor to a young Barack Obama—had extensive Communist ties and demonized Democrats

Jimmy Carter’s woeful record dealing with America’s two chief foes of the past century, Communism and Islamism

Today’s dupes, including the congressmen whose overseas anti-American propaganda trip was allegedly financed by foreign intelligence

How ’60s Marxist radicals—Tom Hayden, Mark Rudd, Jane Fonda, Jeff Jones, Bill Ayers, and more—have suddenly reemerged as “progressives for Obama”

How Franklin Roosevelt was duped by “Uncle Joe” Stalin—and by a top adviser who may have been a Soviet agent—despite clear warnings from fellow Democrats

How John Kerry’s accusations that American soldiers committed war crimes in Vietnam may have been the product of Soviet disinformation

The many Hollywood stars who were duped, including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly—and even Ronald Reagan

Soviet records that demonstrate beyond doubt the Communists’ expansionist aims and their targeting of American liberals, especially academics and the Religious Left

How liberals still defend the same Communists who trashed Democratic icons like Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, and JFK—and still attack the anti-Communists who tried to spare them from manipulation

Details on many other dupes (and dupers), including Arthur Miller, Dr. Benjamin Spock, John Dewey, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman, Howard Zinn, Walter Cronkite, and Helen Thomas

Packed with stunning revelations, Dupes shows in frightening detail how U.S. adversaries exploit the American home front.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: communists; liberals; progressives
Kengor talked about his findings on 7/28/12 on C-Span's History Bookshelf.
1 posted on 08/03/2012 9:49:39 AM PDT by KyGeezer
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To: KyGeezer

This one is WELL worth obtaining as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Exposing-Espionage-Americas-Traitors/dp/0895262258/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344012946&sr=8-1&keywords=venona+papers


2 posted on 08/03/2012 9:56:41 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

A GREAT read!


3 posted on 08/03/2012 9:59:37 AM PDT by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: KyGeezer

“The Communist” is his latest.

http://tinyurl.com/d8zvjl3


4 posted on 08/03/2012 10:00:14 AM PDT by Misterioso (They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it. - Monk)
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To: KyGeezer

These books exposing the incessant march of global communism are all fine, but the very people who should read them won’t. So they remain topics within conservative circles only, and the dupes themselves, well, remain dupes.


5 posted on 08/03/2012 10:03:22 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: US Navy Vet

Thanks for the link.


6 posted on 08/03/2012 10:07:11 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: KyGeezer

Ping for later...


7 posted on 08/03/2012 10:42:38 AM PDT by 103198
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To: 103198

Bookmark


8 posted on 08/03/2012 12:39:56 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

s/b, “How Progressives have soaped themselves up and enjoyed being ‘duped’.”

Thanks KyGeezer.


9 posted on 08/05/2012 11:19:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: KyGeezer; SunkenCiv; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; InterceptPoint; Lazlo in PA; ...
I read the book "Dupes" shortly after it came out in 2010. It's a detailed history of communism in the US, starting shortly after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. As such it's a good reference on the subject.

About twenty years ago, with the ouster of communist governments in the USSR and Eastern Europe and with the symbolic destruction of the Berlin Wall, we were told that communism is completely dead by the MSM. Well, they were certainly wrong, deliberately so perhaps.

Probably not even the most optimistic communist in the country then could have envisioned an Obama in the White House so soon.

10 posted on 08/05/2012 3:54:47 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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11 posted on 08/05/2012 4:11:35 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks KYGeezer & Sunken Civ
Some of the duped were just dopes, but many were fellow translate, or Communists themselves.


12 posted on 08/05/2012 4:44:45 PM PDT by Cincinna ( *** NOBAMA 2012 ***)
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To: KyGeezer

Ping.


13 posted on 08/05/2012 5:01:00 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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