Blacklisted by History

The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight against America’s Enemies

By: M. Stanton Evans

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Accused of creating a bogus Red scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half-century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts.

But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government.

Evans’ revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. Drawing on primary sources, Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.

Evans shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false, including conventional treatment of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era, the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, and much more.

In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. Blacklisted by History provides the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.

©2007 M. Stanton Evans (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Please, America, read this book.” (Glenn Beck)

“[T]he greatest book since the Bible.” (Ann Coulter)

“Evans goes through extensive files and transcripts with complete mastery of complex material and an engaging turn of phrase that makes more than six hundred pages of painstaking analysis both a triumph of historical scholarship and a gripping detective story.” ( Salisbury Review)

One of those books that changes everything

This book offers much more than a long-overdue corrective version of McCarthy’s brief senatorial tenure. Rather, the history of the most critical early decades of the internal Cold War are carefully and clearly explained in a well-organized and compelling narrative. For me, this book has permanently changed how I look at the world, even today. Long but worth it.

Wow. A great well researched work!

Evans is now my favorite journalist historian. Very good exposition of McCarthy and his era.

Important story told here

Every serious student of history must read this book. The press needed a target and powers were threatened. McCarthy was doing important work and had to be stopped. When will the press pay for their shoddy and spurious reporting.

History set right - worth every minute

If you could sum up Blacklisted by History in three words, what would they be?

History set right

What did you like best about this story?

The clear original research into congressional records to ascertain truth as more important than support for a point of view. McCarthy is not presented as a saint, bot is certainly not the devil either.

Excellent history

Well written and kept my attention throughout. Factual and adequately documented. Thoroughly enjoyable. Thought-provoking material