No Sense Of Decency

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

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Robert Shogan ISBN: 9781615780006
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publication: March 1, 2009
Imprint: Ivan R. Dee Language: English
Author: Robert Shogan
ISBN: 9781615780006
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Publication: March 1, 2009
Imprint: Ivan R. Dee
Language: English

"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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"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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