Senator Joe McCarthy"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 |
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Contents
Early Days | 75 |
Great Days | 119 |
Last Days | 232 |
Those Days Seen from These Days | 255 |
Authors Note | 272 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Senator Joe McCarthy |
| Author | Richard H. Rovere |
| Contributor | Authur M. Schlesinger |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0520204727, 9780520204720 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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