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.
Senator Joe McCarthy
About the Book
Reviews
"The definitive job, and I can't imagine what else there is to say about him."—Walter Lippman"This is an appraisal without apology. If its judgments are uncompromising, they are also given without rancor, indeed with an air of almost sympathetic curiosity about the phenomenon that was McCarthy. . . . It is no surprise that [Rovere's] book is a vividly written, sophisticated recreation of a political episode whose manic qualities already begin to seem unbelievable."—Anthony Lewis
Table of Contents
Foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
What He Was and What He Did-1
What He Was and What He Did-2
Early Days
Great Days
Last Days
Those Days Seen from These Days
Author's Note
Index