Diana West's
provocative new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's
Character, has been making waves on both the right and
the left for bombshell claims of Communist infiltration of the United States
government in the twentieth century.
After
the book was "serialized" on Breitbart News, attacks have come from
the left and even the right.
Conservative
Front Page Magazine writer and
historian Ronald Radosh called West Joe McCarthy's "heiress." Radosh
attacked her for being "reckless" and giving "anti-communism a
bad name."
West
fired back on her Web site and said of Radosh's review, "This hit piece
isn't just mendacious. It's incompetent. I think the import is already clear.
Radosh didn't read the book, or, more likely, constructed a review calculated
to undermine my arguments by gross omission."
The
feud between Radosh and West has moved on from internecine battles on the right
as New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait weighed in from the left.
Chait said in an article titled, "Conservative Historian Has Interesting Ideas,"
that "Faithful readers of the conservative news have been conditioned to
believe that modern history is shaped by dark liberal plots, all covered up by
the mainstream news." [more...]
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