Senator Joe McCarthy - Softcover

Rovere, Richard H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520204727 ISBN 13: 9780520204720

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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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.

From the Back Cover

"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

From the Inside Flap

"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

Reviews

"Mr. Rovere is an acute and breathtakingly levelheaded reporter. . . . This portrait is a subtle one a more subtle one, perhaps, than anyone else has given us (and no brief description can do it justice."

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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Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520204727
• ISBN 13: 9780520204720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 297