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The Danger of a Too-Open Mind

The Atlantic 21 Mar 2025
An even larger stretch of the book is devoted to one of the great spectacles in modern American politics, the Alger Hiss affair.
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Kale on Books: McCarthyism, a Lincoln history and a look at the city of Petersburg

Daily Press 21 Mar 2025
Joseph McCarthy lambasted government agencies and the U.S ... Previous books have thoroughly examined the Hollywood Blacklist and the story of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers in the he-is and he-isn’t a communist scenario, Periano adds ... presidency ... .
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‘Red Scare’ author lets past political hysteria teach us about the present

The Los Angeles Times 13 Mar 2025
Joseph McCarthy, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, and the Hollywood Ten, but also the myriad committees, opportunistic enablers and the long, long line of scapegoats who paid for the mid-20th-century anti-communist witch hunt.
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Putin and Trump 'talk about one another like an old married couple': ex-GOP insider

Raw Story 03 Mar 2025
"What I pointed out was Alger Hiss, who, of course, was a traitor and spy in the United States of the 1930s and 40s – a huge uproar over that, over the Alger Hiss case, and when Hiss was an active spy in the 1930s, he was not a very important person.
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