Matt and I adopt Rogin's position in our book (with cites).
See also this resource: http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/populism.html
Chip Berlet
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Jesse Lemisch Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 3:32 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading butNotfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind
Has anyone on this thread cited Michael Rogin's McCarthy and the Intellectuals, a rigorous study by an unfortunately prematurely dead Berkeley political scientist. This takes apart Hofstadter et al and shows that McCarthyism commenced in elites rather than from the grass roots. And James Weinstein and a collaborator had a classic article on how slow McCarthy was to pick up anti-Communism, becoming alerted to the issue in part by Norman Thomas.
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