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Book Synopsis"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" asked attorney Robert Welch in a climactic moment in the 1954 Senate hearings that pitted Joseph R. McCarthy against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented and magnified its impact was its gavel-to-gavel coverage by television. Thirty-six days of hearings transfixed the nation. With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the phenomenon and analyzes television's impact on government. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished business—the issue of McCarthyism, the strategy based on fear, smear, and guilt by association.
Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The Curtain Rises Chapter 2: A Torch in the Troubled World Chapter 3: Racket Buster Chapter 4: The Road to Room 318 Chapter 5: St. Ed and the Dragon Chapter 6: At War with the Army Chapter 7: The Soldiering of Private Schine Chapter 8: Turning the Tide Chapter 9: The Purloined Letter Chapter 10: Time Out for Tears Chapter 11: To the Bitter End Chapter 12: Unfinished Business Bibliography
