| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television. By David Everitt. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xvi, 411 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-1-56663-575-2.)

Barry Goldwater's dictum that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" resides at the core of David Everitt's rehabilitation of the men responsible for the broadcasting blacklist during the early Cold War. The dominant portrayals of Vincent Hartnett, Laurence Johnson, Kenneth M. Bierly, Theodore C. Kirkpatrick, and John G. Keenan, in Everitt's view, "have failed to rise above the depths of caricature, reducing them to little more than political bogeymen in a partisan political melodrama" (p. xv). Moving beyond that "simplistic morality tale" requires a "more complete picture of these people and their times": an examination of what the blacklisters got right, where they went astray, who aided or enabled them, and who resisted them (pp. xiii, xv).

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