num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: Senator Joe McCarthy
titlecomplete: Senator Joe McCarthy
characters: Joseph McCarthy
genres: Biography, History, Politics, American History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 78
publisher: University of California Press