The Redhunter : A Novel Based on the Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy

Buckley, William F., Jr.

ISBN 10: 0316115894 / ISBN 13: 9780316115896

Published by Little Brown & Company, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Redhunter : A Novel Based on the Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy
• Publisher: Little Brown & Company
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316115894
• ISBN 13: 9780316115896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 1.603 pounds

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Synopsis

"I have heare in my hand....a list of names that were made known to the secretary of state as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."

From America's most celebrated conservative writer, William F. Buckley Jr., comes an engrossing and unexpected historical novel about one of the most controversial figures in American political history - Senator Joe McCarthy.

Senator McCarthy rose and fell in just four years, yet he gave a name, lastingly, to an era. In 1952 he was the most lionized and the most hated man in America. But little was known about the man or his background. McCarthy's personal charm and single-minded determination took him from Wisconsin and his indigent life as a chicken farmer to Washington, D.C., as the youngest United States senator. But it wasn't until February 9, 1950, in Wheeling, West Virginia, that McCarthy bewitched the nation - and unleashed a crusade - with his claim that Communists had infiltrated the United States government.

In THE REDHUNTER, a wondeful blend of fact and fiction, Buckley tells the story of Harry Bontecou. Freshly graduated from Columbia, Bontecou joins McCarthy and remains at his side for three critical years. But when McCarthy's judgement becomes clouded by prosecutional zeal and reckless extravagance, Bontecou delivers the ultimatum: McCarthy must choose between Bontecou and Roy Cohn, McCarthy's ruthless aide. By then we have seen at close hand Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, and Dean Acheson in memorable portraits of leaders in action.

About the Author

As a young man, William F. Buckley, Jr. was part of a coetrie of conservative intellectuals who on balance endorsed McCarthy's crusade. Drawing on a close-up view, Buckley now portrays the senator who provoked more headlines than any other elected official in American history this side of the White House. Informed, surprising, and subtle, THE REDHUNTER brings to life the main figures and events of a critical period, re-creating a historical drama without parallel.

An industrious writer, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder of the National Review and host of TV's longest-running program, Firing Line, is the author of eleven novels. His most recent work is Nearer, My God, a religous memoir.