Title: A good book to remain out of print.
Product review: Even in 1992, there was considerable evidence that the CPUSA was an active arm of the Soviet state operating within the United States, and material almost simultaneously coming from Soviet archives has proven it. Red scare fears were frequently misdirected, but that is not the same as being imaginary. While it is true that this book is not meant to be history as such, its snidely ignorant tone destroys what fun there might have been in its content. Those actually interested in the period might start with the documentary works by John Earl Haynes et al, and leave Mr. Barson's in the dustbin of history where it belongs.
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