Description
Book SynopsisMaurice Rosenblatt was one of the behind-the-scenes engineers of the 1954 overthrow of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the anti-Communist chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. This book tells the story of the rise of McCarthy's power and Rosenblatt's role in effecting McCarthy's eventual censure by the Senate.
Trade Review"This book sounds a wise warning about the price we pay when a free press fails to live up to its mandate. It also provides a much-needed reminder that a focused, bipartisan opposition to bad government is a very powerful tool."
* The Seattle Times *
"This in-depth look at the man who brought down Joe McCarthy brings the ugliness of that era back into sharp focus. But Scates also rewards us for reliving all of that by introducing us to a real American hero: Maurice Rosenblatt, the lobbyist who ended McCarthy's reign of fear."
-- Jim McDermott * U.S. Congressman, Washington State District 7 *
Table of ContentsPrologue
1. The Carroll Arms and the National Committee for an Effective Congress
2. Tailgunner Joe, Chanker Jack, and "Moose Dung"
3. The "McCarthy" Elections, 1950 and 1952
4. McCarthyism
5. The Hunter
6. Postwar and Palestine
7. The Cause
8. The Closed Hearings: Vengeance and the VOA
9. The Inspector and His Witnesses
10. The Clearinghouse
11. Flanders and the Fall
Epilogue
Notes
Index
