Volume 53, Number 10 · June 8, 2006
Demagogue Without a Cause
By Anthony Lewis
Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
by Tom Wicker
Harcourt, 212 pp., $22.00
Americans under the age of sixty-five are unlikely to have any real idea of what it was like in this country during the reign of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The movie Good Night, and Good Luck, about Edward R. Murrow's stand against McCarthy in CBS television programs, has recently given audiences a glimpse. But it hardly conveyed the pervasive atmosphere of suspicion, the paralysis of political will during the years of McCarthy's power between 1950 and 1954.
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