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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
EAN num: 9781425482589
ISBN number: 1425482589
Label: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Page Count: 384
Printing Date: December 23, 2005
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Contents: Who is Your Enemy? How Communism Began; The Communist Appeal in the U.S.; Life in the Party; The Communist Trojan Horse in Action; The Communist Underground; Bibliography of Major Communist Classics.
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A fellow high school teacher was retiring and giving away all the books on her shelf. This was among them. I personally took it down in the name of the public good. This book is an often hilarious bit of paranoid cold war propaganda.
J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of our Federal Bureau of Investigation, penned this screed in 1958. By 1965 (the edition I stole), the book had been through 20 printings. It was assigned in many high schools.
What do we have here? Hoover reports on the mischievous tactics of "underground" communism in America. In one section he recounts how communists endeavor to "avoid being followed" by "leaving subway trains and buses at the last possible second" or "speeding through intersections while the light is on yellow"! Dastardly communists! God-fearing Americans would never speed through intersections!
The book is worth reading as a testament to the arrogance of America's ruling elites and their paranoid police flunkies (such as Hoover), and as a reminder that they're never to be trusted.
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This book should be rquired reading for high school seniors and college students. It explains much of what has happened in this country over the past forty or fifty years ... in particular, it anticipated the tactics that were used during the Vietnam era, Iran-Contra, etc. These tactics continue to be used today.
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I finally decided to read this book in light of current political events, particularly the fact that many anti-war protests are organized and funded by communist/marxist groups.
I was surprised by the relevance of this book given the nearly sixty years since the very first printing. Had I read this in 1995, I might have been more inclined to pass it off as a ranting voice from the distant past, but the current love affair with Che Guevara in particular and marxist ideas in general at US colleges proves several of Hoover's main points.
However, Hoover spends more time exploring/explaining the tactics used by communists as they endeavor to make socialism acceptable to Americans. He highlights the constant drone by the socialists/communists on the "evils" of capitalism. Moreover, Hoover points to the loss of personal responsibility and accountability as fundamental to accepting an ever more powerful central government that dictates and controls more of our daily lives.
Communists speak of "freedom from..." but never "freedom to...", and this is one of the most dehumanising elements in socialist societies.
The fact that communism/marxism is taught yesterday at colleges and universities as a benign, more enlightened form of government without any reference to the horrors they brought on humanity should serve as a warning on just how masterly deceived many Americans have become.
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Eugene A. Hewett, as well as J. Edgar Hoover, are a bunch of capitalist thugs. The maccarthy era was a HORRIFIC breach of rights against democracy, I'm not even mentioning communism. This book by Hoover is so ludicrous and hateful I don't even know where to begin. Now, I'm not saying I'm a big fan of the cold war and soviet supremacy, but oh my god..... anyway, If I were you, I'd buy this book for a good laugh.
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Joe McCarthy did America a great disservice in the early 1950's when his tactics for rooting communists out of American government positions were sucessfully ridiculed by Leftist aiders and abetors in our nations media. While mcCarthy has subsequently been proven to have been correct ("Venona Secrets", "the Haunted Wood", "the Sword and the Shield"), his name has become something of a smear word for any Leftist wishing to lampoon conservative values.
In this book, J. Edgar Hoover discusses the history of the ins and outs of Communist Party operations in the united States. It is of no minor significance that Hoover has been smeared by the religious Left in order to dilute his very prescient message. By linking Hoover as a possible sexual partner to his companion Clyde tolson the Left has managed to make Hoover appear a dishonest hypocrite who flits about in a tutu in his private moments. However, none of this should dilute Hoover's realization of Communism as a clear and present danger to the United states.
We can see the appropriateness of his vision yesterday as we witness the hypocrisy of the political correctness movement in academia, the Leftist bias in the major media, and the virulent environmental extremism astride the land. Hoover spoke to all of the precursors of these conditions because they were fundamentally neccessary for a socialist government to seize control of America's government and business apparatus.
It's unfortunate that we have forgotten Hoover's positive contributions. It would be a good thing to revive his legacy, warts and all, to study the type of material he discusses in this evocative book.
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