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

Shogan, Robert

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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.

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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.

Détails de l'édition

• 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
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