Useful idiots : how liberals got it wrong in the cold war and still blame America first / Mona Charen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charen, Mona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism.

Liberalism--United States.

Liberalism.

United States.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, [2003]

Summary:

Jane Fonda, Dan Rather, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, and all the other liberals who were -- and are -- always willing to blame America first and defend its enemies as simply "misunderstood." These are the liberals who flocked to Castro's Cuba and called it paradise, just as a previous generation of liberals visited the Soviet Union and proclaimed its glorious future. They are the liberals who saw Communist Vietnam and Cambodia -- in fact, Communism everywhere -- as generally a beneficial force, and blamed America as a gross, blind, and blundering giant. Now that the Cold War has been won, these liberals, amazingly, are proud to claim credit for the victory -- conveniently forgetting their apologies for the Communists and their vicious attacks on Cold Warriors such as Ronald Reagan. But nationally syndicated columnist Mona Charen isn't about to let them rewrite history.

In her shocking new book, Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, she exposes: Prominent liberals who served in the Clinton administration -- such as Madeleine Albright, Sidney Blumenthal, and Strobe Talbott -- all of whom turned a blind eye to the Soviet "Evil Empire," but now want to be counted as Cold Warriors; Media figures who clucked with praise for Communists and smirked with snide disdain for America -- including Bill Moyers, Phil Donahue, Bryant Gumbel, and Katie Couric; Professors who poisoned the campuses with anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism at top universities such as Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Georgetown; Entertainers -- such as Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Meryl Streep, Martin Sheen, and Ed Asner -- who used the megaphones of their fame to blame America first. In Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, Mona Charen holds liberals accountable -- and reveals the horrifying crimes that these liberals helped defend and cover up for the Communists.

Contents:

The brief interlude of unanimity on communism

The consensus unravels

The bloodbath

The mother of all communists : American liberals and Societ Russia

Fear and trembling

Each new communist is different

Post-communist blues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.

ISBN:

0895261391

OCLC:

51242136