I was alerted to the incredible and impressive anti-communist journalistic career of Eugene Lyons only recently. I was doing my usual trolling through the conservative web sites when I came upon a review of an ancient (well, 78 years old) book The Red Decade, written by Eugene Lyons, a review by Harry Stein at City Journal. Mr. Stein, doing his job as a reviewer, said:
It may be that the best book that will ever be written about today’s progressive mind-set was published in 1941. That in The Red Decade author Eugene Lyons was, in fact, describing the Communist-dominated American Left of the Depression-wracked 1930s and 1940s makes his observations even more meaningful, for it is sobering to be confronted with how little has been gained by hard experience.I am a sucker for a good book, and I read Mr. Eugene Lyons’ book The Red Decade . I am transfixed by his erudition, capacity to capture the nature of the subject and his devotion to a detailed description of the communist infiltration of the United States in the 1930s.
Mr. Lyons, a journalist who was, early on, a socialist. was assigned by the United Press International to cover Russia in the early 30s, learned the realities and brought his knowledge back to the United States to expose the commies. His book Assignment in Utopia (1937) (still available) described the Stalin horrors and pogroms/purges/assassinations/famines, systematic killing when he returned to the US.
After returning to the US, he turned his eye to the domestic communist political project under the direction of Stalin and Moscow. His investigations and analysis result in the book that is the focus of my review, released in 1941 (still available, republished in 1970), that details the commie infiltration of the US under Stalinist control, the creation of front organizations, union infiltrations, academic and media influence, political and social take overs -- the magnitude of what Mr. Lyons documents is stunning and overwhelming............To Read More...
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