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American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character

American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character

Book by Diana West

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Oct 6, 2026

Peter BregginHOST
1:27
And she wrote two books that were actually very good.
Peter BregginHOST
1:29
One was The Death of the Grown-Up, and the other that had a profound effect on me was American Betrayal, The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, which came out in 2013.
Peter BregginHOST
1:45
And I grew up in a family which was terrified of Joe McCarthy and his sidekicks.
Peter BregginHOST
1:54
and really saw him as kind of the epitome of evil and threat to the Jews.
Peter BregginHOST
5:22
it's something that you could probably talk about better than anybody else in the country.
Diana WestGUEST
5:26
Because
Peter BregginHOST
5:27
I never did get to finish saying that you so enlightened me in American Betrayal on how real McCarthy's allegations were that the infestation was probably, as I remember, even larger than any of communism in the country, than McCarthy or any of us realized.
Peter BregginHOST
5:48
Yes, I think that's

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