Senator Joe McCarthy
by Richard H. Rovere
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The story of Senator Joseph McCarthy's rise to unprecedented power and the decline of his influence is a dramatic one. Richard Rovere documents the process by which a clever, power hungry individual came to mislead and manipulate members of Congress and the American public and to damage countless lives. A new foreword for this edition by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. places the book in historical context and relates it to current issues in American public life.Tags
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There does come a point where the snark factor produces diminishing returns. Like A.J. Liebling, Rovere can't really resist putting in side comments which detract from the serious issues he raises about McCarthy; most notably, McCarthy's shady finances, a point not often raised. Interestingly, Rovere roundly denounces government workers' leakage of documents to McCarthy; one wonders whether he would view those kinds of actions with the same outrage today.
Charles Johnson? Is that you? Interesting look at a rather controversial figure in modern American history.
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- Canonical title
- Senator Joe McCarthy
- Original publication date
- 1959
- People/Characters
- Joseph McCarthy
- Important events
- Cold War
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 973.921 — History & geography History of North America United States 1901- Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001) Dwight D. Eisenhower,1st Term (1953-1961) Brown V. Board of Education, Interstate Highway System, Geneva Summit
- LCC
- E748 .M143 .R62 — History of the United States United States Twentieth century General Biography
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- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 6
