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 US 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 US 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.

Most Americans have grown accustomed to accept the version of history
that the Soviets were our noble allies and took the brunt of the
casualties during World War II. But after decades of research by veteran
journalist M. Stanton Evans and intelligence expert Herbert Romerstein,
the truth has come to light and is now exposed in Stalin’s Secret Agents. Evans and Romerstein focus on the role of secret Communist Alger Hiss
at the crucial Yalta Conference of 1945, where vast U.S. concessions
were made to Russia, and the maneuvers of numerous other Soviet agents
to serve the ends of Moscow. Fascinating details about the fall of
China, Yugoslavia, and Poland to Communist domination as well as the
identities of key conspirators in high places are revealed. The authors
recount the steps by which the penetration occurred under FDR, the
influence wielded by such advisers as Harry Hopkins and Henry
Morgenthau, and the indifference of U.S. officials during this time.
Also included are riveting details about the multi-layered
cover-up-including rigged grand jury sessions-and the extent of the
theft of secrets are sure to surprise and stun listeners everywhere.