"Joseph McCarthy was not yet a household name in March 1950 when the rogue senator smeared Owen Lattimore as the "top Russian espionage agent in the country." Lattimore, a scholar of Asian studies, learned about the accusation a week later while traveling in Afghanistan. Fearing that he had already lost valuable time to rebut the smear, Lattimore succinctly cabled the Associated Press "McCarthy's rantings pure moonshine," and returned to the United States to defend his good name." "A few months later - following a torturous Senate inquisition detailed here - Lattimore published Ordeal by Slander, the first great book to emerge from the McCarthy era. It is a gripping read, as important today as it was in the summer of 1950. Lattimore wrote it in a white heat, indignant that he, or any loyal citizen, could see his patriotism questioned. It was immediately reviewed in more than sixteen periodicals - a critic in the San Francisco Chronicle judged "Americans owe it to Lattimore - and even more to themselves - to get the story here." The book quickly became a bestseller, going through five printings that summer. In a battle for his very liberty, Lattimore's narrative chronicled his defense and how he undermined his accusers."--BOOK JACKET.

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html On Easter morning, April 18 (5), 1993, in Optina Desert, a Satanist killed three of its inhabitants: Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov), monks Trophim (Tatarnikov) and Therapont (Pushkarev). Monks Therapont and Trophim rang in the bell tower, announcing Easter joy - they were killed first, hieromonk Vasily went to the skete to confess the worshipers, but at the skete gates, hurrying to help the brothers, he was overtaken by a murderer ... /// They lived glorifying God, and now God is glorifying them ... /// They left in silence - one at a time. And before leaving, they stood for a long time and prayed at the graves of the new martyrs. The Lord has many saints, but these are his own, and everything in their life is recognizable for us: the same childhood in homes without icons and a painful search for God. Their life is similar to the life of many - outwardly ordinary and seemingly arranged, but bleeding from the inside. All of Russia is now bleeding, and in our miserable state, which has tried all the teachings and treatments from Marxism to Mondevialism, it seems that the parable of the bleeding wife is coming true: “She suffered a lot from many doctors, exhausted everything that she had, and did not receive no benefit, but she came in even worse condition” (Mark 5:26). /// The three Optina brothers are young Orthodox Russia, and together with all of them once entered the church. But they entered with that fiery faith in the Lord, with which a bleeding wife rushed to Christ, believing that she would be healed by touching His robe. Is it not for this that the Lord glorified in miracles the three Optina New Martyrs who gave their lives for the Orthodox faith, so that suffering Russia could hear the voice of our Lord Jesus Christ: "Dare, daughter, will your faith save you?" /// The original text [translation] of the stichera of the Penitential Canon of Hieromonk Vasily is published for the first time.

For over 40 years, Jack M. Sasson has been studying and commenting on the cuneiform archives from Mari on the Euphrates River, especially those from the age of Hammurabi of Babylon. Among Mari’s wealth of documents, some of the most interesting are letters from and to kings, their advisers and functionaries, their wives and daughters, their scribes and messengers, and a variety of military personnel. The letters are revealing and often poignant. Sasson selects more than 700 letters as well as several excerpts from administrative documents, translating them and providing them with illuminating comments. In distilling a lifetime of study and interpretation, Sasson hopes to welcome readers into a fuller appreciation of a remarkable period in Mesopotamian civilization. Sasson’s presentation is organized around major institutions in an ancient culture: (1) Kingship, treating accumulation of wealth, control of vassals, dynastic marriages, treaty-obligations, as well as illustrating the hazards and vexation of ruling a large territory; (2) Administration, from palaces that teem with bureaucrats, musicians, and cooks, to the management of provinces and vassal kingdoms; (3) Warfare, military establishment and martial practices; (4) Society, including organs of justice (and shortcuts to it), crime, punishment, and civil transactions; (5) Religion, including notices on diverse pantheons, rituals, priesthood, cultic paraphernalia, vows, ordeals, and channels to the gods (divination, dreams, and prophecy); and (6) Culture, including ethnic distinctions, class structure, and moments in the life cycle (birth, childhood, family life, health matters, death, and commemoration). Sasson’s presentation of the material brings to life a world entombed for four millennia, concretizes the realities of ancient life, and gives it a human perspective that is at once instructive and entertaining. The book is accompanied by extensive concordances and indexes (including to biblical passages) that will be useful to those who wish to study the letters more intensively.

A biography of one of the most under-rated economists of the 20th century, whose own remarkable and eventful life paralleled key events of the twentieth century. Edith Penrose's work is now the cornerstone of current work in business strategy and entrepreneurship.

Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Who was the real Joe McCarthy? Was he an American hero who alerted the country to the threat of Communist subversion or a demagogue who played cynically on the nation's fears?