Title: American betrayal
Description: American Betrayal shatters the approved histories of an era that begins with FDR's first inauguration, when "happy days" are supposed to be here again, and ends when we "win" the Cold War. It is here, amid the rubble, where Diana West focuses on the World War II--Cold War deal with the devil in which America surrendered her principles in exchange for a series of Big Lies whose preservation soon became the basis of our leaders' own self-preservation. It was this moral surrender to deception and self-deception, West argues, that sent us down the long road to moral relativism, "political correctness," and other cultural ills that have left us unable to ask the hard questions: Does our silence on the crimes of Communism explain our silence on the totalitarianism of Islam? Is Uncle Sam once again betraying America?--From publisher description.
Subjects: Politics and government, Political culture, Socialism, Foreign relations, History, Socialism, united states, United states, politics and government, 1933-1953, United states, foreign relations, soviet union, Soviet union, foreign relations, united states
Places: United States, Soviet Union
Time periods: 20th century, 1933-1953