No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: a Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics - Couverture rigide

Shogan, Robert

 
9781566637701: No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings: a Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1566637708 ISBN 13 : 9781566637701
Editeur : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2009

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.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Shogan, a former prizewinning national political correspondent for Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, has also written Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal; Bad News; Constant Conflict; Hard Bargain; Riddle of Power; The Fate of the Union; and The Battle of Blair Mountain. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1566637708
ISBN 13 
9781566637701
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Parlux SpA
customer-care@parlux.it

Via Goldoni, 10-12
Trezzano sul Naviglio
20090
Italie