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The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad (review)

by such Hollywood stars as Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, George Murphy, and Ronald Reagan. One of Schwarz’s early mainstays, W. Cleon Skousen, was quietly eased out because of his extreme conspiratorial theories. Unlike some other grassroots anti-Communist groups, Schwarz avoided both anti-Semitism and racism. He did not attack the civil rights movement as Communistdominated. Although Schwarz was critical of urban rioting in the 1960s, he also condemned racism. Very few of his Crusades took place in the Deep South. Several of his allies, including Kohlberg and Marvin Liebman, his public relations expert, were Jewish. Villeneuve demonstrates that attacks accusing Schwarz of anti-Semitism by such prominent organizations as the Anti-Defamation League were inaccurate. Despite Schwarz’s efforts to avoid identification with more extreme antiCommunist organizations, he eventually lost his footing with the increasing prominence of the John Birch Society (JBS). Privately, he was critical of the secretive, hierarchical, and “fascist” organization led by Robert Welch, but he refrained from an all-out assault, for fear it would antagonize many of his supporters and funders. When Schwarz publicly ridiculed Welch’s characterization of Dwight Eisenhower as a Communist, Welch accused him of splitting the anti-Communist movement and gloated that the CACC had served as a recruiter for the JBS. As fears about a surge in far-right activity spiked in the early 1960s, liberals launched attacks on the CACC as a JBS offshoot, many organizations began to distance themselves from Schwarz, the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies began to cause problems, and financial support began to wither. By the 1970s health problems had limited Schwarz’s role. He lived to see his one-time close ally Ronald Reagan win the presidency and the collapse of Communism before dying in 2009, but the CACC had long since faded into irrelevance. Villeneuve’s book provides as thorough an accounting of the CACC’s successes and failures as we will ever need and suggests the ways the organization foreshadowed the rise of the “new right” of the 1980s. At times the book’s relentless compilation of Schwarz’s numerous lectures and crusades becomes tedious, but overall it is a useful book.