No Sense of Decency
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No Sense of Decency

The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics

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eBook - ePub

No Sense of Decency

The Army-McCarthy Hearings: A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics

About this book

"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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Information

Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781615780006
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. BOOKS BY ROBERT SHOGAN
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Epigraph
  8. 1 - The Curtain Rises
  9. 2 - A Torch in the Troubled World
  10. 3 - Racket Buster
  11. 4 - The Road to Room 318
  12. 5 - St. Ed and the Dragon
  13. 6 - At War with the Army
  14. 7 - The Soldiering of Private Schine
  15. 8 - Turning the Tide
  16. 9 - The Purloined Letter
  17. 10 - Time Out for Tears
  18. 11 - To the Bitter End
  19. 12 - Unfinished Business
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
  24. Advance praise for Robert Shogan’s No Sense of Decency . . .