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In The Death of the Grown-Up, Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at its chief symptom: our inability to become adults who render judgments of right and wrong. In American Betrayal, West digs deeper to discover the root of this malaise and uncovers a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacred history of World War II and its Cold War aftermath.
Part real-life thriller, part national tragedy, American Betrayal lights up the massive, Moscow-directed penetration of America's most hallowed halls of power, revealing not just the familiar struggle between Communism and the Free World, but the hidden war between those wishing to conceal the truth and those trying to expose the increasingly official web of lies.
American Betrayal is America's lost history, a chronicle that pits Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, and other American icons who shielded overlapping Communist conspiracies against the investigators, politicians, defectors, and others (including Senator Joseph McCarthy) who tried to tell the American people the truth.
American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR's first inauguration, when "happy days" are supposed to be here again, and ends when we "win" the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II--Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders' own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, "political correctness," and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions: Does our silence on the crimes of Communism explain our silence on the totalitarianism of Islam? Is Uncle Sam once again betraying America?
In American Betrayal, Diana West shakes the historical record to bring down a new understanding of our past, our present, and how we have become a nation unable to know truth from lies.
- Sales Rank: #360053 in Books
- Brand: Brand: St. Martin's Press
- Published on: 2013-05-28
- Released on: 2013-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.42" h x 1.42" w x 6.51" l, 1.33 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 416 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
“Diana West masterfully reminds us of what history is for: to suggest action for the present. She paints for us the broad picture of our own long record of failing to recognize bullies and villains. She shows how American denial today reflects a pattern that held strongly in the period of the Soviet Union. She is the Michelangelo of Denial.” ―Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge and the NYT bestseller The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
“This explosive book is a long-needed answer to court histories that continue to obscure key facts about our backstage war with Moscow. Must-reading for serious students of security issues and Cold War deceptions, both foreign and domestic.” ―M. Stanton Evans, author of Blacklisted by History
“If you haven't read Diana West's "American Betrayal" yet, you're missing out on a terrific, real-life thriller.” ―Brad Thor, author of the New York Times bestsellers Black List, Full Black, and The Last Patriot.
“What Diana West has done is to dynamite her way through several miles of bedrock. On the other side of the tunnel there is a vista of a new past. Of course folks are baffled. Few people have the capacity to take this in. Her book is among the most well documented I have ever read. It is written in an unusual style viewed from the perspective of the historian--but it probably couldn't have been done any other way.” ―Lars Hedegaard, historian, editor, Dispatch International
“Her arguments shred our preconceived notions of twentieth century history.” ―Jeff Minick, Smoky Mountain (NC) News
“American Betrayal is a monumental achievement. Brilliant and important.” ―Monica Crowley
“Diana West's new book rewrites WWII and Cold War history not by disclosing secrets, but by illuminating facts that have been hidden in plain sight for decades. Furthermore, she integrates intelligence and political history in ways never done before.” ―Jeffrey Norwitz, former professor of counterterrorism, Naval War College
“Enlightening. I give American Betrayal five stars only because it is not possible to give it six.” ―John Dietrich, formerly of the Defense Intelligence Agency and author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy.
“American Betrayal is not simply a good book about history. It is one of those books which makes history.” ―Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov, Breitbart News
“Every once in a while, something happens that turns a whole structure of preconceived ideas upside down, shattering tales and narratives long taken for granted, destroying prejudice, clearing space for new understanding to grow. Diana West's latest book, American Betrayal, is such an event.” ―Henrik Raeder Clausen, Europe News
About the Author
Diana West is the author of The Death of the Grown-Up and coauthor of Shariah: The Threat to America. West's essays have appeared in numerous publications, and her weekly newspaper column is syndicated by Universal Uclick. She is the Washington correspondent for Dispatch International.
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93 of 97 people found the following review helpful.
American Betrayal
By TJC
This is a brave book if nothing else in that it offers a view of some of the U.S.'s more celebrated presidents ( Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower) that is at odds with the accepted narrative.That may explain the violent condemnations it has received. Nonetheless, West provides support for her claims and writes in a bold, clear style that pulls no punches.
If you like history and are willing to entertain an outsider's slant on things, you will find American Betrayal as interesting as I did. If on the other hand, you see Roosevelt as one of America's great presidents you more than likely to be as offended as some of the books harshest critics are.
One of the books recurring charges strikes me as true. The West paid a terrible price to defeat one monster ( Hitler), only in the end to hand Eastern Europe over to another monster ( Stalin). West goes to great lengths to point out that truth and to show that anyone who has tried to suggest that the results of WW 2 were not the glorious victory for democracy that we assume it was has been largely marginalized. If nothing else, this book reminds its readers that the Roosevelt all good and McCarthy all bad view of things is a bit simplistic.
99 of 106 people found the following review helpful.
Ms.West is surely the sharpest-needled hedgehog I had ever met!
By Rostislav
The further I went into pages of this great (probably "giant" would be more proper word – both in sense of giant toil it undoubtedly demanded and in sense of its content's giant message, to tell nothing about giant courage of the author, who couldn't but foresee the reaction of the Leftist world at her blasphemies!), the more often I was remembering the ancient Archilocus quote: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing". Now, after closing the last page, I'm absolutely sure that Ms. West is one of the few really-big-things-knowing Hedgehogs I had happiness to meet – and, surely, she is the sharpest-needled of them. I've read a lot of earlier honest books on her theme, both here, in my post-USSR Russia, and in the West, but "America's Betrayal" beats them all, - and not so in new well-documented details, facts or appraisals (thou' Ms. West showers her readers with a cornucopia of revelations), but in the entirely new tone of her book. It's not an impartial register of some recently declassified archives or a cold-blooded analysis of some long-forgotten speeches – not at all! It is a veritable scream of a deeply wounded human soul: "How could they do this to my great country? How could they fall so low, so servile in their hidden utopian creed? And how could Americans be so trusting?" It's surely one of the most emotionally written books in my life, - in fact, it's the first book on the theme, written not by a historian or a political guru, but by a patriotic CITIZEN, whose pages are constantly exploding with her righteous anger, with her searing pain, with her feeling of overwhelming shame. She is never indifferent, never "across-the-aisle", never "fearing to offend". I think, this emotional sincerity is a very important virtue of the book, and I think it's a real ray of hope that your country has more and more of these sincerely angered writing citizens (mainly women – I'm feeling a bit ashamed for my own sex!) – Sarah Palin, Marinka Peschmann, Michelle Malkin and many others. In my Russia they are simply shot – in yours they are still enough free to fight for their country in their wonderfully decent books and articles, God bless them all!
The fierce smearing campaign against this book is quite understandable – the very basis of the Left utopia is desecrated here in the most convincing way: Diana West shows how FDR's decision to have relations with the cancer tumor of the USSR was duly rewarded with the later rapid devouring the newly acquired body. Your Land of the Free becomes more and more a copy of totalitarian practice in everything, be it PRISM total surveillance, indoctrination of education from the earliest years or the efforts to change the too familiar Marxist tumor for the new Islamic one. The Left's rant about "right extremists' efforts" is only funny after Hillary treating her hubby's scandal with Monica as a "huge rightist conspiracy" – it just doesn't work any more! And their wails "Hopkins wasn't a Soviet agent!", "Ike had no Communist sympathies!", "Snow wasn't on Kremlin payroll!" etc are hollow again: even if all of them were the members of the very Politburo, they couldn't do more to destroy America, than they did. Ms. West's best ally is Matthew of the Holy Bible: "You will know them by their fruits", - and my, doesn't she show us these loathsome fruits in all their rottenness! I've seen some of these fruits long before her magnificent book: in Polar Siberia, amidst the ghostly ruins of "Death Railroad" GULAG camps with their hardly-seen scratched English inscriptions on wooden barracks' walls, with empty Lend-Lease pork tins in the permafrost hole near the sentries' galley, with the excellent V-100 portable U.S. transmitters from these camps (they were serving my small Siberian town's communications up to the late seventies!). And later I've met many veterans of the Allied convoys to our Northern ports, who told me about the shameful convoy of JW-61A, whose ships brought to Murmansk in 1944 thousands of future GULAG victims, betrayed by the uncle Joe's best friends… It's possible to say that Ms. West's book was already supported firmly enough by my own past experience – so faraway from her, but nevertheless so eloquent! Now, thanks to her book, I can easily transform Kissinger's words said to his close circle "We are all the President's men here!" into a whisper of another "gang of brothers" (Hopkins, Hammer, FDR et al), as isolated from the Americans but even more sinister: "We are all Stalin's men here!" This great book is a very timely (I hope) warning against the ultimate disaster of "We are all the Jihad's men here". As a 100% Russian, I'd like to finish my review with an optimistic toast: Thank you for your hard enlightening toils, Ms. West, and God grant them to be as fruitful, as they deserve! Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
93 of 103 people found the following review helpful.
Are 5 Stars Really Sufficient
By John J. Molloy
I purchased American Betrayal upon the recommendation of a dear friend, a veteran of World War II and Vietnam, who serves
as Chaplain for the National Vietnam & Gulf War Veterans Coalition. When I made my initial examination of American Betrayal,
I came across a reference to Moscow Bound by John M. G. Brown, and was utterly astounded. Brown is an old friend and a true
patriot and by virtue of the reference, I sensed that the Chaplain's recommendation could not have been more appropriate.
American Betrayal not only identifies our enemies but also their supporters who smear and denigrate those who would deny
the opportunity to tell the truth and expose them. It also is indicative of our government's position and efforts, on the surface, to engage the enemy while doing little or nothing but render lip service, at best, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy at worst. A prime example is the government's referral to the recovery of America's missing servicemen (which they seldom, if ever, refer to prisoners of war)as our nation's highest national priority and as a testament thereof orders the
POW-MIA flag flown over government buildings. Nevertheless, those Americans still held prisoner were abandoned and exploited
by our government for political and economic reasons. However, as a face-saving measure to show its concerns the government
negotiates and bribes, to obtain the remains of our missing servicemen who were still alive in communist captivity long after the conflicts, from the Siberian Expedition in 1919 through Vietnam, were deemed to have ended. As Dr. Kissinger once referred to "military men 'as dumb stupid animals to be used' as pawns of foreign policy." Ms. West properly points out that our government, despite our position of power, and the achievements of our military, has bargained poorly and has favored our communist/Muslim adversaries, thanks of course to the enemy within. I wholeheartedly recommend 'American Betrayal' so that the American people will have an opportunity to better understand the nature of our adversaries and I am grateful to the author for the tremendous public service she has provided. Sadly, based on our current political circumstances America is on dire straits, and her recovery, if the situation is allowed to continue, may be in doubt. However, it is never to late to pronounce and preserve the truth for our descendants.
John Molloy
Chairman
National Vietnam & Gulf War Veterans Coalition
Vietnam combat veteran
Survivor 2/26/93 & 9/11/01 attacks on WTC
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