joe mccarthy, they would have found their joe mccarthy. that is not to defend in the of mccarthy's actions. please. we now have the evidence of how many people were guilty and the way that they lied. very disturbing. other questions. >> i wonder if you have any comment on the will of american corporations as dupes for america's foes such as henry ford and the ford corporation and also armand hammer. and also know that the flow of corporate money into the elections has become -- the floodgates have been opened, if you have any concern about american companies that want to do business with communist countries, either selling the products or by raw materials, using their influence on american politicians which is only going to grow to force american policy in the direction that is more sympathetic to china and less sympathetic to the american worker. >> i will cut you off. i have not looked into it. but didn't find much. armand hammer was not on my list. i am serious. the multi volume set. i am telling you, it is an extraordinary thing. so ma

information, led by george creel, former journalist who appropriate ended his career working for joe mccarthy and richard nixon in the 1950s. and anti-communist. and house affairs un-american activities american activities. because the war had no popular support, wilson in fact ran for reelection on the slogan that he kept us out of the war. but the bankers, wall street, had lent tremendous sums of money to the british and french. and if the germans won the war, that money was not going to be repaid. so there was pressure from the financial elite to push us into a conflict that had no popular support at all. very little popular support. wilson and walter lippman, arthur, all of them understood this. and so they created this remarkable system to saturate the country with propaganda, crossing the lines of many disciplines. they had their own film division. they had a new division -- news division that pumped out one story after another. manufactured of course all of the atrocities attributed to the hated hun. they use graphic artists. they used radio. they established because bureaus. and it wa

this was not collected in his earlier works, and then liberals which is very critical of joe mccarthy. my father had no use for him and called him a demagogue, but the critique of liberals to be forthright and being anticome mewist at the time caused a huge uproar. the first essays when he was very, very young are more of that what you expect being 20 and writing in a review style being serious about novelists, but you see the spark pretty young i think. >> host: the tone is more conversational i think. >> guest: he was so good at that kind of -- well the short ones in the "washington post" and public interest and elsewhere are so good. a -- there's a quite serious discussion of books, issues, questions usual lo one has -- usually one has one or the other. he was able to put those together in an impressive way. >> host: let's talk about neoconservatism which is between the con servetism -- conservatism mainstream which probably still is. at one point he mentions the heros for neoconservatisms and i think he had teddy roosevelt, reagan, and fdr. i could be wrong. he says at one point w

hadn't been collected. '52 essay and commentary on mccarthy, and liberals which is critical for joe mccarthy. my father had no use for him. he called him a vulgar demagogue. and being anti-communist at the time caused a huge upright. so i think he was able to pause it up. the first essays are very, very young. they are at war, the kind of what you'd expect for someone in the '20s with a partisan review style. very serious about thrilling and the simone the great italian author. you see the spark. grandfather -- >> host: the tone was more conversational. >> guest: the longer ones and commentary and "public interest" and elsewhere. you were one the few people that could full it off of first person conversation, and quite serious discussion of books, issues, questions, usually one has one or the other. the questions and concerns. you are a light harded first person. he was able to pull those together in the present way. >> host: now let's talk about neoconservative. you may not want to draw. which is between the nigh -- neoconservative, and other conservative. what was mainstream and probably s

commentary on mccarthy and liberals which is very critical of joe mccarthy.he calls in just a vulgar demagogue and someone who might damage the anti-communist cause but the liberals that were willing to be forthright and being anti-communist at the time causes huge uproar in what appeared in commentaries. the first essay when he is very young are little more that kind of someone in his 20s riding in a partisan style, pretty serious about truly and the grated tie-in novelists, but you see the spark for the young i think of this with. >> host: of the tone is more conversational ice today. the short ones in the wall street journal and the longer once. i think this is pretty unusual of first-person conversation and then quite serious discussion of hooks, issues, questions, usually has one or the other. you have questions you discuss earnestly or a lighthearted conversationalist but he was able to put those together in an impressive way thing. >> host: was talk more about new conservatism and that might want to draw a few things which you might not want to draw wh

collected in the early work in the commentary on mccarthy and the liberals which is critical of joe mccarthy, my father had news for him which he calls him a folder demagogue the anti-communist but then the critiqued liberals for being unwilling to be forthright and anti-communist caused a huge uproar when it appeared in commentary so i think that he was able even as a young man. the first essay or more that kind of what to expect from someone in the 20's writing a partisan view style, pretty serious about trolling and the great italian novelist. but you see the spark pretty young i think. >> host: the tone was more conversational. it became so good at that kind of all of those essays, the short ones that had come into republic interest and elsewhere, so good a combination this is pretty unusual you were one of the few people who could pull that off of first-person conversational and then quite serious discussion of books, issues, questions, usually one has one or the other, the serious questions discussed earnestly or a light hearted first-person conversationalist but he was able to pull th