https://dianawest.substack.com/p/revisiting-revisionism?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_
There was always something serendipitous if not downright miraculous in the fact that Ronald Radosh failed to receive his review copy of American Betrayal in a timely fashion. He asked for one early enough to have been out of the box with his “take-down” as the book came out in the spring of 2013; however, despite St. Martin’s and the US Mail’s best efforts, he didn’t get his book (and was too cheap to buy one, thank goodness!) until the summer. That gave the book a little over two months to be read and reviewed and talked about, and me plenty of time do a number of interviews and appearances and write some articles before the campaign of lies began. (Newcomers can catch up on this shocking history in The Rebuttal: Defending American Betrayal from the Book-Burners.)
So, in the history of American Betrayal, there is a period that predates the the Disinformation Campaign which began in earnest on August 7, 2013 with “McCarthy on Steroids” at Frontpage magazine.
There is a three-hour-interview I did with Brooks Agnew from this early period. It was on the night of June 2, 2013 when the book was barely a week old. That show came to mind recently, what with all the talk of revisionism and Churchill and Hitler and Joe Rogan and Darryl Cooper, and, now, Douglas Murray and the “experts,” including Andrew Roberts. I had thought the audio was lost but I find that some very dear person unknown to me uploaded the interview in hour-long segments to Youtube (links below). For added context, I will close with an email I received after the interview, as quoted in a post published at my dear old “cancelled” website, dianawest.net in which I linked to the Brooks Agnew interview.
