[blam]

" Mr. Stanton makes a compelling case that there was in fact a "witchhunt" and McCarthy was its victim. "

I'm a firm believer of this.

One of the best books ever written.

[SergeiRachmaninov]

I've had that book on my shelf for several years and really regret not yet having got around to it. I bought it mostly because so many people -- as you have -- give it a passionate recommendation.

Although I have not read the Chambers book, I certainly have paid a lot of attention to this period of history and bristle whenever I hear people on NPR deploring the "dark days of McCarthyism." And I hear this on almost every day that I listen to NPR. It is the world turned upside down.

People who think that either academe or the MSM delivers anything remotely like a straight-down-the-center view of American history have no clue.

[mc5cents]

I just ordered it on Amazon. 6.98 plus shipping.

[ScaniaBoy]

And you shouldn't miss this book either:

Perjury: The Hiss - Chambers Case by Allen Weinsten

[Bernard Marx]

One of the best books ever written.

I could not agree more! I'd add to it as "must" McCarthy-era reading:

"Seeds of Treason" by Ralph de Toledano (look at used booksellers)

"Stalin's Secret Service," Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect (a total eye-opener as to just how vulnerable the U.S. was to Communist spying and security penetration in the '30s and '40s).

When Russian General Walter G. Krivitsky, Chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, defected to the U.S. in 1937, he wasn't even interviewed by the FBI!! He was found in a Washington D.C. hotel room in 1941 with a bullet wound to the head, a pistol on the floor and 3 suicide notes. Some people were skeptical: Krivitsky had been hotly pursued by the KGB (then the NKVD) since he'd left Europe. His lawyer later quoted him:

"One day you walk along a street and there is a dead man, run over by a car. And you see it is Krivitsky. You say, 'Poor man, he should have been more careful.' You never think it is they who killed me so. They are too clever!"

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Yes indeed. “Witness” should be required reading on every college campus for for every graduate.

And to think that America is about to “elect” it’s number one communist to serve in our White House........

Whitaker Chambers must be rolling over in his grave or, more probably, looking on from heaven and turning his eyes away because he simply cannot look at what is to befall our nation unless God Himself intervenes. (for which I and many others are praying....)