None Dare Call It Treason

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.

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 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 show more 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.

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