Lafayette Lee Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@GregKostrikin If you’re interested, Harvey Klehr and John Early Haynes discuss this in Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

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@RussLeJeune To start with, I recommend: The Sword And The Shield (Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin) Venona, The Secret World of American Communism (John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr) Out of Bondage (Elizabeth Bentley) After Long Silence (Michael Straight)

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There’s a political lesson in this, and I think it helps explain much of the frustration and distrust we see in the body politic. (This thread was inspired by my reading of Patrick Deneen’s book, Regime Change, which spends some time discussing Book 3 of Aristotle’s Politics)

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@fka_erin @th3v0t4ry In addition to Shelby Foote, I’d recommend Andrew Nelson Lytle’s “Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company.” Apart from being a biography, the book discusses the motivations and interests behind the war.

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The investigation had broad appeal, especially for a “lost generation” of progressives and conservatives who had become disillusioned by the war. The hearings also happened to coincide with the publication of Smedley Butler’s explosive short-book War Is A Racket… https://t.co/Wrn4MsQ337

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Duncan Lee, an Ivy League-educated WASP and descendent of the Virginia Lees, was a highly placed Soviet asset within the OSS. As a confidential assistant to Bill Donovan, Lee provided Elizabeth Bentley information about the US military’s anti-Soviet activities. https://t.co/CZdjwORAKt

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“You don't love Cato more than I do. But, though he has the best intentions and is quite the patriot, he nevertheless on occasion does some harm to the republic, because he speaks as though he lived in Plato's Republic, and not among the dregs of Romulus.” https://t.co/Y7b6AEtDqQ

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@RussLeJeune To start with, I recommend: The Sword And The Shield (Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin) Venona, The Secret World of American Communism (John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr) Out of Bondage (Elizabeth Bentley) After Long Silence (Michael Straight)

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@RussLeJeune To start with, I recommend: The Sword And The Shield (Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin) Venona, The Secret World of American Communism (John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr) Out of Bondage (Elizabeth Bentley) After Long Silence (Michael Straight)

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Note: One of the 12 CPUSA leaders indicted under the Smith Act was Robert Thompson, a decorated combat veteran who had earned the Distinguished Service Cross in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Thompson had also fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. https://t.co/5ljCw07Yze