M. Stanton Evans, author of Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies, says inaccuracies infect many of the books on this topic. He tells John J. Miller: “The basic inaccuracy is the suggestion in most of the books that McCarthy was making stuff up; that he was lying. . . . What we now know is that he wasn’t lying. . . . He was correct both as to the larger picture of communist penetration in the government and as to many specific cases [of this].”