MCcarthyism revisited

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Notes

1. Congressional Record, 78th Congress, 1st Session (1 February 1943), 479.

2. Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism: the fight for America, documented answers to questions asked by friend and foe (New York, Devin-Adair, 1952), 7; Roy Cohn, McCarthy (New York, NAL, 1968), 8 and 276; Jack Anderson and Ronald W. May, McCarthy: the man, the senator, the “ism” (Boston, Beacon Press, 1952), 351.

3. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, MA, 1991), 735.

4. William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell, McCarthy and His Enemies: the record and its meaning (Chicago, H. Regnery, 1954); Medford Evans, The Assassination of Joe McCarthy (Belmont, MA, Western Islands, 1970). Evans père dedicated his book to, among others, ‘Stanton and Kate, early McCarthyites.’ Another book in this trend is Ann Coulter's Treason: liberal treachery from the Cold War to the war on terrorism (New York, Crown Forum, 2003). She states, in her acknowledgements, that M. Stanton Evans is ‘the world's leading authority on Joseph McCarthy.’

5. By contrast, Arthur Herman, in his revisionist biography, undertook a critical analysis of McCarthy's style and persona. Joseph McCarthy: reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator (New York, Free Press, 2000), 6.

6. Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, following their examination of what Weinstein terms ‘a critical mass’ of documents from the KGB Archives, concluded that spies for the Soviet Union provided Soviet intelligence agencies with ‘substantial and sometimes critical information … concerning U.S. government policies on highly sensitive subjects’ and ‘a voluminous collection of classified material’, which constituted a ‘tangible and hurtful legacy.’ They do not, however, demonstrate how ‘hurtful’ nor do they make any attempt to weigh the effects on United States national security of this transfer of voluminous documentation. The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America—the Stalin era (New York, Random House, 1999), 343–344.

7. www.citizensforaconstitutional republic.com/vernon 11-7-07 part 2; www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Artists/000/000/014/360baygp.asp; www.townhall.com/Columninsts/AnnCoulter/2007/11/08/

8. In fact, Radosh wrote that Evans had taken virtually all of his material from Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case: prelude to McCarthyism (Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1996), without acknowledging it. Radosh also called the book unbalanced and concluded that Evans’ ‘own exaggerations and unwarranted leaps parallel those made by McCarthy.’ ‘The Enemy Within’, National Review, 17 December 2007, pp. 50–52. In his lengthy response, Evans declared himself shocked that he could be so maligned in ‘the once-beloved pages of National Review.’ He then charged Radosh with an ‘extensive’ lack of knowledge about the McCarthy period, and, in response to the Amerasia charge wrote: ‘This vicious statement is an astounding, and outrageous, lie.’ Radosh, in reply, accused Evans of ‘overreacting.’ National Review, 31 December 2007, pp. 2–6 and 27. For Coulter, see findarticles.com/P/articles/md_qaa3827/is_20071217/ai_n21197594/pg_1; for McDonald, see www.takimag.com/site/articles/blacklisted_by_inr_i/.

9. David Oshinsky, In the Heart of the Heart of Conspiracy, New York Times Review of Books, January 27, 2008, p. 23. See also, David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: the world of Joe McCarthy (New York, Free Press, 1983). For other critical commentaries on Evans, see Michael C. Moynihan, McCarthy and His Friends: The Unconvincing Rehabilitation of Tail Gunner Joe, <www.reasononline.com/news/show/124398.html>; John Earl Haynes, The Rehabilitation of Joe McCarthy, <frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID = 5A73E7CA-OC95-414D-A88D-)F38AD285FCE>.

10. See Michael J. Ybarra, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the great American Communist hunt (Hanover, NH, Steerforth Press, 2004). McCarran asked Eastland to introduce the Senate resolution that established SISS (p. 537).