Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy - Softcover

Tye, Larry

 
9780358522485: Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 035852248X ISBN 13: 9780358522485
Verlag: Mariner Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings

In the long history of American demagogues, from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use “McCarthyism” to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a weapon of polarizing slander. From 1950 to 1954, McCarthy destroyed many careers and even entire lives, whipping the nation into a frenzy of paranoia, accusation, loyalty oaths, and terror. His chaotic, meteoric rise is a gripping and terrifying object lesson for us all. Yet his equally sudden fall from fame offers hope that, given the rope, most American demagogues eventually hang themselves. Only now, through best-selling author Larry Tye’s look at the senator’s records, can the full story be told.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Larry Tye is the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy and Satchel, as well as Demagogue, Superman, The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and coauthor, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. Previously an award-winning reporter at the Boston Globe and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, he now runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship. He lives on Cape Cod.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
035852248X
ISBN 13 
9780358522485
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
640
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