The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics
by
Robert Shogan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
"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...