ISBN: 0312630786

In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wro… Mehr…

In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacred history of World War II and its Cold War aftermath. Part real-life thriller, part national tragedy, American Betrayal lights up the massive, Moscow-directed penetration of America's most hallowed halls of power, revealing not just the familiar struggle between Communism and the Free World, but the hidden war between those wishing to conceal the truth and those trying to expose the increasingly official web of lies. American Betrayal is America's lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth. American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR's first inauguration, when "happy days" are supposed to be here again, and ends when we "win" the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II--Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies w 20th century,americas,commentary and opinion,history,history and theory,modern (16th-21st centuries),political science,politics and government,politics and social sciences,specific topics Politics & Social Sciences, St. Martin's Press<

2012, ISBN: 9780312630782

Conservative columnist Diana West uncovers how and when America gave up it's core ideals and began the march toward Socialism In "The Death of the Grown-Up," Diana West dissected our inab… Mehr…

Conservative columnist Diana West uncovers how and when America gave up it's core ideals and began the march toward Socialism In "The Death of the Grown-Up," Diana West dissected our inability to become adults who can judge right from wrong. In "American Betrayal," she digs into our modern political landscape, dominated by President Barack Obama, to ask how it is that America turned its back on its basic beliefs and ignore the Socialism movement underway long before the 2012 election. West's surprising answer takes the form of an investigative history that explores the massive, Moscow-directed penetration of U.S. society: those who concealed it--Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and others--those who did the penetrating--Hiss, Currie, Silvermaster, Hopkins, Adler, and hundreds more--and the forgotten heroes who exposed it --Lyons, Bullitt, Dies, Chambers, Bentley, Jordan, Epstein, McCarthy (yes, McCarthy) and more. West finds that even before WWII, the U.S. made a deal-with-the-devil, accepting Big Lie after Big Lie from the Soviet Union, concealing them in order to take the stage as the post-war superpower, and losing our values in the process. The sorry story continues today with Americans acquiescing to pro-Islamic radicalism--another Big Lie--while leading Republicans are fearful of speaking out against liberal excesses. In "American Betrayal," Diana West shakes the historical record and dislodges a shocking number of icons to discover how a nation of adolescents became so cowardly that we cannot defend our most cherished values. Media >, [PU: St Martin's Press]<

2013, ISBN: 9780312630782

St Martins Pr, Gebundene Ausgabe, 403 Seiten, Publiziert: 2013-05-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 1.35 kg, Verkaufsrang: 12550, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Kate… Mehr…

St Martins Pr, Gebundene Ausgabe, 403 Seiten, Publiziert: 2013-05-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 1.35 kg, Verkaufsrang: 12550, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Kategorien, Bücher, St Martins Pr, 2013<