Senator Joe McCarthy / Edition 1

by Richard H. Rovere, Authur M. Schlesinger

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520204720
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/12/1996
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Richard H. Rovere (1915-1979) was a New Yorker staff writer, Washington correspondent for 11 years at the time he wrote this book. Among his books are Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years and, with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., General MacArthur and President Truman: The Struggle for Control of American Foreign Policy.

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                               

 

Editorial Reviews

In this "hard-hitting account," Rovere shows how "McCarthy terrorized and silenced routine jobholders, great political and military figures, artists and scientists, and yet vanished abruptly as a political force three years before he died" (LJ 6/15/59).

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