Doug Henwood Talks

Which elites, exactly? The Fortune 500, or ball-bearing manufacturers
in Wisconsin?

Doug

On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:

Hi,

Matt and I adopt Rogin’s position in our book (with cites).

See also this resource: http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/populism.html

Chip Berlet

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From: lbo-talk-bounces@lbo-talk.org on behalf of Jesse Lemisch Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 3:32 PM To: lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth
Reading butNotfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind

Has anyone on this thread cited Michael Rogin’s McCarthy and the Intellectuals, a rigorous study by an unfortunately prematurely dead Berkeley political scientist. This takes apart Hofstadter et al and
shows that McCarthyism commenced in elites rather than from the grass
roots. And James Weinstein and a collaborator had a classic article on how slow McCarthy was to pick up anti-Communism, becoming alerted to the
issue in part by Norman Thomas.

Jesse Lemisch

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