The Truth About McCarthyism: Modern Parallels

The mainstream narrative would tell you that from 1950 to 1954, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy unjustly accused a wide variety of Americans of being communist spies, creating a hysterical witch-hunt that destroyed the lives of innocent people. What is the truth about Sen. Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism? Are are the modern parallels between mid-1950s McCarthyism and the events of today?

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1400081068/?tag=freedradio-20

Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFNYW/?tag=freedradio-20

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator by Arthur Herman
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0684836254/?tag=freedradio-20

Witness by Whittaker Chambers
http://www.amazon.com/dp/162157296X/?tag=freedradio-20

The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors by Eric Breindel
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0895262754/?tag=freedradio-20

Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government by M. Stanton Evans
http://www.amazon.com/dp/143914768X/?tag=freedradio-20

Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina Shelton
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451655428/?tag=freedradio-20

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674076087/?tag=freedradio-20

Notes From the Underground: the Whittaker Chambers-Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0895264250/?tag=freedradio-20

Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy Delivered in the United States Senate, 1950–1951
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1258516438/?tag=freedradio-20

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