The Secret World of American Communism. - book reviews
National Review, June 12, 1995 by Eric Breindel
Obviously, there is more -- much more -- in these pages. But the best summary of this book's significance is provided by Klehr and Haynes themselves. They describe the CPUSA as "a conspiracy financed by a hostile power that recruited members for clandestine work, developed an elaborate underground apparatus, and used that apparatus to collaborate with espionage services of that [hostile] power." This just about says it all.
It need only be added that an enterprise of this kind isn't everybody's definition of "Twentieth-Century Americanism."
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