frank marshall davis was on the other side on that. another piece that continues to haunt me commit january 26th 1950 column by davis called free piece davis the man is. not harry truman or the democrats, but general motors, gm. davis is furious that this gigantic corporation made a profit last year $600 million. he is trying to frame gm as an aggressive monopoly.ces of rising unemployment the time draws near when we will have to decide to oust the monopolies and restore a system of competing free enterprise or let the government own and operate our major industries. if davis could have come if he could have he would have nationalized gm in 1950, no question. how relevant is all of this today with president obama? we could talk about that. i started looking at davis and reading these columns. not exactly the order of my discovery. i've read the columns first. then i started finding the fbi files and the other things. at first i thought that i was dealing with possibly a progressive liberal who was duped by communists. then i realized th

and, specifically, i'll talk about john dewey, frank marshall davis and ted kennedy as examples. during the q&a there's a lot of other people who we could talk about as well including actors, all kinds of people in hollywood, humphrey bogart, for example, who i talk about in the book as a dupe. but there was also, as you'll note in the appendix of the book, i find a bogart in the communist party usa archives, and i look at that very carefully as to whether that could possibly be humphrey bogart. that's something we could also talk about during the q&a. but first, why i did this. three components: scholarship, partisanship and the issue of redemption. scholarship, i notice that nobody had ever done a book on the role of dupes. in american history. and, in fact, did a google search on the term, and maybe two or three books in all the library of congress even have the word in the title. and yet it's a word that goes back to the founding of the republic itself. you'd probably be surprised to know that george washington used the word dupe, dupes in his farewell address. so he was warn