Dupes : how America's adversaries have manipulated progressives for a century / Paul Kengor.
Kengor exposes the legions of liberals who have furthered the objectives of America's adversaries, and shows how such dupes have contributed to history's most destructive ideology-- Communism-- but also why they are relevant to today's politics.
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Wilmington, Del. :
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Table of Contents:
- World revolution, the Comintern, and CPUSA
- Woodrow Wilson : "utter simpleton"
- Potemkin progressives
- John Dewey : the Kremlin's favorite educator
- John Dewey's long, strange trip
- The redemption of Professor Dewey
- Smearing another liberal icon : CPUSA's assault on "Fascist" FDR and the New Deal
- War communism : hating FDR, loving FDR
- Duping FDR : "Uncle Joe" and "buddies"
- The Hollywood front
- October 1947 : Hollywood v. "HUAC"
- Trashing Truman : world communism and the Cold War
- Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis
- Vietnam dupes : protests, riots, and the chaotic summer of '68
- Grown-up Vietnam dupes : Dr. Spock, Corliss Lamont, and friends
- Radicals : Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, SDS, and the Weathermen
- John Kerry--and Genghis Khan
- A kiss for Brezhnev : Jimmy Carter
- Defending the "evil empire" : stopping Ronald Reagan's "errors" and "distortions"
- "Star Wars" : the SDI sabotage
- September 11, 2001
- Still dupes for the communists
- 2008 : a "progressive" victory
- Postscript : Bogart at the Workers School?