John A. Stormer (1928–2018)

Got this book as a teenager during the 1964 presidential campaign and kept it as a souvenir.. As my politics have greatly changed, won't try to evaluate this book, except to say it is a window into the 1960's conservative world view.

This books shows that America's basic problem is not political but spiritual. America is dying because few ask why? Why are tax dollars used to pay the agitators and extremists who start big city riots? or Why did the Supreme Court open America's public schools to communist teachers while banning prayer and Bible reading? and other questions.

Treason doth never prosper? What's the Reason?
For if it prosper none dare call it treason.

16th century quote from John Harrington, credited with inventing the flush toilet. Some say that "John" (for toilet) is he.

The book is primarily of historical interest now as documenting cold war right-wing anti-communist, but not necessarily extremist, worries in the early 1960s. Some of those worries resonate again (2019).

There were Communist spies in the State Department; see Harry Dexter White and show more Alger Hiss, for example, and Communist spy defectors Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, for example, in Wikipedia.

Chambers's book "Witness" is on everyone's Top Nonfiction list and an easy five stars. The CIA web site has a review of a biography of Bentley: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publication...

And there is the singular Morris Childs. show less

the first expose of FDR. Only now are exposes of the great Depression are coming. This book was published in '64.