The Politics of Surrender
New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1966. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 21 cm, 568 ages, former owner's stamp on front endpaper. Excerpts for a review posted on line: This is a Conservative interpretation of the Cold War. It is at times, a blistering, blustering attack on the Liberal ""establishment's"" foreign policy from Yalta to Saigon. The thesis: the Liberals have changed America's appeasement of Russian rulers and Communism in general. The Liberal conspirators--Dean Rusk, Kennedy, Johnson, et al. -- are selling America's security to the Communist dream of empire. Medford Stanton Evans (July 20, 1934 – March 3, 2015), better known as M. Stanton Evans, was an American journalist, author and educator. He was the author of eight books. Evans was present at Great Elm, the family home of William F. Buckley in Sharon, Connecticut, at the founding of Young Americans for Freedom, where, on September 11, 1960, he drafted YAF's charter, the Sharon Statement. Some conservatives still revere this document as a concise statement of their principles.
From 1971 to 1977, Evans served as chairman of the American Conserative Union (ACU)] He was one of the first conservatives to denounce U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, just a year into his first term, co-writing a January 1970 ACU report condemning his record. Under Evans' leadership, the ACU issued a July 1971 statement concluding, "the American Conservative Union has resolved to suspend our support of the Administration." Evans often joked that he "never liked Nixon until Watergate."
In June 1975, the ACU called upon former Governor Ronald Reagan of California to challenge incumbentGerald R. Ford, Jr., for the1976 Republican presidential nomination. In June 1982, Evans and others met with President Reagan to warn him that the White House staff was undermining Reagan by making a deal with the Democratic Congress. (Reagan subsequently made such a deal, in which for each $1 in higher taxes Congress promised $3 in spending cuts; Reagan delivered the tax hike, but Congress reneged, actually increasing spending.)
In 1974, upon leaving the since defunct The Indianapolis News after fifteen years, he taught journalism at Troy University in Troy, Alabama for more than thirty years. From 1977 to 2002, he led the National Journalism Centerr in Washington, D.C., which was established with financial help from the conservative movement and brought promising beginning journalists to the nation's capital. He founded the Education and Research Institute. He was a member of the Council for National Policy, sat on the advisory board of Young Americans for Freedom, and was a trustee of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). He was an advisor to the National Tax Limitation Committee and was a plaintiff in numerous federal court cases involving the First Amendment issue of "freedom of information." Condition: very good / fair. DJ worn with some tears.
Keywords: Cuban Missile, Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro, J. Wm. Fulbright, John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev, Cold War, Anti-communism, Dean Rusk
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