Talk:Joseph Alsop
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[edit] Alsop's homosexuality
Alsop is listed among LGBT writers, yet nothing is writen about his sexuality in the text. I think something should be added and the information cited.
- Good point. Now added. Steve Casburn 04:43, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cold War Liberal
I think more discussion of Alsop's political views in the post-war era, beyond a passing reference to Vietnam, is merited. By that time, he had begun to develop the embittered and sardonic attitude today associated with neo-conservatives and is truly one their godfathers. Moreover, during the 1950s his vituperative anti-communist polemics at times were of a piece with the demagoguery of Joseph McCarthy, most notoriouysly in Alsop's attacks on General Stilwell, and to a lesser extent General Marshall, as part of the "Who Lost China" hysteria of that period. His connection with JFK may seem paradoxical, but actually it is not as Joseph Kennedy had developed similar views after having had an early falling out with FDR and was in fact a close friend of Joseph McCarthy, with his son Robert serving as his Senate counsel at one point.Tom Cod (talk) 06:51, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
