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Group: Eisenhower And The Old Right (and Communists!)

In 1953 Senator Joseph McCarthy recited before his subcommittee and the press a list of supposedly pro-communist authors whose works his aide Roy Cohn found in State Department libraries in Europe. The State Department bowed to McCarthy and ordered its overseas librarians to remove from their shelves "material by any controversial persons, Communists, fellow travelers, etc." Some libraries burned the newly-forbidden books. Shortly after this, President Eisenhower urged Americans: "Do not join the book burners. … Do not be afraid to go in your library and read every book." Too bad the new right can't forge their way to see the ways of the old right. Propaganda can be blinding. Your web essays prove it.