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Dupes, How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

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Dupes, How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

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eng

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no index present

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non fiction

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Dupes

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electronic resource eBook

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dictionaries

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How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

Summary

Nothing short of horrifying . . . In terms of putting the last 100 years in perspective, Dupes may be one of the most significant literary offerings of our time. In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: the prominent role of the dupe. From the Bolshevik Revolution through the Cold War and right up to the present, many progressives have unwittingly aided some of America's most dangerous opponents. Based on never-before-published FBI files, Soviet archives, and other primary sources, Dupes reveals: Shocking reports on how Senator Ted Kennedy secretly approached the Soviet leadership to undermine not one but two American presidents; stunning new evidence that Frank Marshall Davis, mentor to a young Barack Obama, had extensive Communist ties and demonized Democrats; Jimmy Carter's woeful record dealing with America's two chief foes of the past century, Communism and Islamism; today's dupes, including the congressmen whose overseas anti-American propaganda trip was allegedly financed by foreign intelligence; how Franklin Roosevelt was duped by Uncle Joe Stalin and by a top adviser who may have been a Soviet agent, despite clear warnings from fellow Democrats; how John Kerry's accusations that American soldiers committed war crimes in Vietnam may have been the product of Soviet disinformation; and the many Hollywood stars who were duped, including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly and even Ronald Reagan

Table Of Contents

Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Overlooked Role of the Dupe -- Chapter 1: World Revolution, the Comintern, and CPUSA -- Chapter 2: Woodrow Wilson: "Utter Simpleton" -- Chapter 3: Potemkin Progressives -- Chapter 4: John Dewey: The Kremlin's Favorite Educator -- Chapter 5: John Dewey's Long, Strange Trip -- Chapter 6: The Redemption of Professor Dewey -- Chapter 7: Smearing Another Liberal Icon: CPUSA's Assault on "Fascist" FDR and the New Deal -- Chapter 8: War Communism: Hating FDR, Loving FDR -- Chapter 9: Duping FDR: "Uncle Joe" and "Buddies" -- Chapter 10: The Hollywood Front -- Chapter 11: October 1947: Hollywood v. "HUAC" -- Chapter 12: Trashing Truman: World Communism and the Cold War -- Chapter 13: Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis -- Chapter 14: Vietnam Dupes: Protests, Riots, and the Chaotic Summer of '68 -- Chapter 15: Grown-up Vietnam Dupes: Dr. Spock, Corliss Lamont, and Friends -- Chapter 16: Radicals: Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, SDS, and the Weathermen -- Chapter 17: John Kerry-and Genghis Khan -- Chapter 18: A Kiss for Brezhnev: Jimmy Carter -- Chapter 19: Defending the "Evil Empire": Stopping Ronald Reagan's "Errors" and "Distortions" -- Chapter 20: "Star Wars": The SDI Sabotage -- Chapter 21: September 11, 2001 -- Chapter 22: Still Dupes for the Communists -- Chapter 23: 2008: A "Progressive" Victory -- Postscript: Bogart at the Workers School? -- Appendix A: Ted Kennedy's Secret Overture to the Soviet Union -- Appendix B: Frank Marshall Davis's FBI File -- Notes -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Copyright

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