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Entry: Blacklisted By NR Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blacklisted_by_inr_i#16140 Post contents: No one should be surprised by anything Ronald Radosh does or says. He led the attack on "The Pied Piper." my biography of Allard Lowenstein, in The New York Times, which much of the same venom. It's all 'Horse Radosh," of course, but it comes from Radosh's divided self. Once a banjo playing lefty who worshipped Pete Seeger, he turned neo-con when the so-called big news came out that Seeger had once been a Communist. Having argued that the Rosenbergs's were guilty, he was ostricized by his former lefty friends, so he turned increasingly to the expedient right. Now, trying to reestablish his relationship with the academy, which had banished him, he has used NR to bolster his anti-anti-Communist credentials. This is a guy with absolutly no convictions. When Seeger finally acknowledged that supprting Stalin had been a big mistake, he jokingly said that Radosh could now find another cause and might actually grow up. This review should come as no surprise. Radosh made all sorts of absurd accusations about "The Pied Piper,' and resorted to personal attacks. It's the way this phony functions. Don't take it personally. A low life like this knows only how to denigrate his superiors, whether he is taking aim from the right or the left. He has become a literary hit man, a hired gun helping those who want history rewritten, whatever their motives. The best thing to do with Radosh is to ignore him. The guy is low life. Sent at: 2009 01 08