NOT WITHOUT author of SECRECY AND POWER: THE LIFE OF EDGAR HC FR 2 J. — U.S. $30.00 CAN. $40.00 For more than seventy years, America's anticommunists led the fight against the SovietUnion and itssatellites. Theyexposed the poverty and hungerofthe Communist system; denounced the persecution, slavery, and mur- der it employed to stay in power; condemned those who made excuses for its crimes; and demanded that their country resist and repeal its advances on every front, at home and around the world. In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, and communism collapsed. The nations of the Communist orbit began to reckon the costs of theircaptivity: oversixtymillionpeopleexecuted, starved, or worked to death; social and economic systems in ruins; hordes ofrefugees fleeingWest forfoodandsafety.Clearly,ifevera political move- ment had been vindicated by history, it was American anticommunism. And yet the end of communism found few in America willing to concede that the anticom- munists had been right. Few acknowledged that the anticommunists had told the truth about communism when no one wanted to hear it, or admitted that there had been more to anticommunism than McCarthyism, red- baiting, and black-listing. Indeed, the collapse ofthe SovietUnion seemed ifanything to prove thatcommunism had never been a serious threat, and that the Cold War had been mainly fueled by uncontrolled right-wing hysteria. Prophets the anticommunists may have been, but they were prophets without honor in their own country. Now, in the first full-scale history of Ameri- can anticommunism, Richard Gid Powers author of a widely praised biography of — J. Edgar Hoover reminds us whatthis struggle was really about. Bringing to life such figures asWhitakkerChambers, SidneyHook,Hamilton Fish, Roy Cohn, and Clare Booth Luce, Powers documents the complex history of this volatile Donated by Harvard University's Office of Community Affairs in honor of Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard's 26th President June 16,2001 BOSTON public library NOT WITHOUT HONOR Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/notwithouthonorhOOpowe NOT WITHOUT HONOR The History of American Anticommunism RICHARD GID POWERS ALLSTON BRANCH LIBRARY *P THE FREE PRESS New York London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore ALBR E743.5 P65 1995 Copyright©1995byRichardGidPowers Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedortransmittedinanyformorbyany means,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying,recording,orbyanyinformationstor- ageandretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthePublisher. TheFreePress ADivisionofSimon<SlSchusterInc. 866ThirdAvenue,NewYork,N.Y. 10022 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica printingnumber 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Powers,RichardGid Notwithouthonor:thehistoryofAmericananticommunism / RichardGidPowers, p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. )andindex. ISBN0-684-82427-2 — — 1. United States Politics and government 20th century. 2. Anti-communist move- — — — ments UnitedStates History 20thcentury. I.Title E743.5P65 1995 335.4,0973—dc20 94-45953 CIP