Joseph McCarthy: Re-Examining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
Written by Arthur Herman
Narrated by Sean Pratt
3.5/5
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Arthur Herman
Arthur Herman is the bestselling author of Freedom’s Forge, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Idea of Decline in Western History, To Rule the Waves, and Gandhi & Churchill, which was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. Herman taught the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian’s Campus on the Mall, and he has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America, George Mason University, and The University of the South at Sewanee.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The thesis of this book is that McCarthy is too much maligned in history. More specifically, that many of the issues he raised have turned out to be more valid than is assumed in the popular view of this man. I like revisionist history a great deal, so I was very much looking forward to this read. For me, Herman didn't prove his points. For me the core of McCarthy hatred is based more in accusations without evidence and in vilifying individuals for their real or assumed points of view. That there were communists in the State Department or wherever does not diminish the fact that McCarthy made accusations without evidence, and that someone sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution should be held to a very high standard in that regard. He was a (would be) demagogue. That said, I revised my star rating upward because of the bravery of this author to take on a topic and a POV that are generally not welcome. That is, of course, what makes revisionist history potentially powerful, and I want to thank the author for that courage.