The Web of Subversion

When James Burnham published The Web of Subversion in 1954, he was not trafficking in rumor or in the fevers of red-baiting. He was reading the record. The sworn testimony, the congressional findings, the documented placement of Communist agents inside the departments and agencies of the United States government: Burnham laid them out with the cold precision of a man who had once kept company with the very revolutionaries he now exposed. (2026ed, pb, 212pp)