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Beginning in the late 1960s, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr say, the study of communism in America was taken over by ''revisionists'' who have attempted to portray the U.S. as the aggressor in the Cold War and saw suspicion about the American Communist Party (CPUSA) as baseless ''paranoia.'' In this intriguing book, they show how, years after the death of communism, the leading historical journals and many prominent historians continue to teach that America's rejection of the Party was a tragic error, that American Communists were actually unsung heroes working for democratic ideals, and that those anti-Communist liberals and conservatives who drove the CPUSA to the margins of American politics in the 1950s were malicious figures deserving condemnation. The focus of ''In Denial'' is what the authors call ''lying about spying.'' Haynes and Klehr examine the ways in which revisionist scholars have ignored or distorted new evidence from recently-opened Russian archives about espionage links between Moscow and the CPUSA. They analyze the mythology that continues to suggest, against all evidence, that Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and others who b

Who reads In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage?

Author

John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr

Publisher

Encounter Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781893554726

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, True Crime, Crime

Rating

4.6 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14