We ought not forget the darker side of our political heritage.
Harvey Klehr
A new book offers compelling evidence that whatever its errors or missteps, liberal anti-communism got it mostly right.
They were ordered to blame the Nazi invasions of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg in 1940 on the “rapacious” Western democracies.
The father of David Maraniss got blacklisted for being a communist, but never publicly explained why he’d been one or why he gave up on communism.
Sound intelligence about our adversaries is hard to come by—including in this book.
Harvey Klehr is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History, Emeritus, at Emory University. He has written many books on espionage in the United States and the history of the American Communist Party, among them Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (1999) and Spies: The Rise of the KGB in America (2009), both coauthored with John Earl Haynes.