No Sense Of Decency (eBook)

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

Robert Shogan (Autor)

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2009
336 Seiten
Ivan R. Dee (Verlag)
978-1-61578-000-6 (ISBN)

Infos

With a journalist's eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings 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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"e;Have you no sense of decency, sir?"e; 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 journalists eye for revealing detail, Robert Shogan traces the phenomenon and analyzes televisions impact on government. Despite McCarthys fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished businessthe issue of McCarthyism, the strategy based on fear, smear, and guilt by association.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

PrefaceChapter 1: The Curtain RisesChapter 2: A Torch in the Troubled WorldChapter 3: Racket BusterChapter 4: The Road to Room 318Chapter 5: St. Ed and the DragonChapter 6: At War with the ArmyChapter 7: The Soldiering of Private SchineChapter 8: Turning the TideChapter 9: The Purloined LetterChapter 10: Time Out for TearsChapter 11: To the Bitter EndChapter 12: Unfinished BusinessBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-61578-000-9 / 1615780009
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61578-000-6 / 9781615780006